Spring 2019 Course Syllabi

Lecture/Lab Schedule: To be arranged with students’ schedules Textbooks: The textbooks required for ENGL 238 will be used in this class. Course Requirements: Meet weekly with the instructor at a time and place that works with all participants’ schedules to discuss the ongoing process of writing and publishing an informational text for children. Relationship to Campus Theme: This honors course studies individual works of literature as acts that participate in and are formed by nature, technology, and beyond Grading: ENGL 238 is an one credit course graded S/U. To earn a Satisfactory a student should submit the proposal and either the presentation or the written final essay. 100 points each for a proposal, a presentation, and a written final draft. The proposal, the presentation, and the written final draft are parts of a process that produces a final product. Each part must be submitted by the deadlines announced in class. Academic Integrity: The discussion of plagiarism below comes from the Council of Writing Program Administrators. In instructional settings, plagiarism is a multifaceted and ethically complex problem. However, if any definition of plagiarism is to be helpful to administrators, faculty, and students, it needs to be as simple and direct as possible within the context for which it is intended. Definition: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source. This definition applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers. Most current discussions of plagiarism fail to distinguish between: submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and carelessly or