WRT 205, Critical Research and Writing

Crimes of Writing

Spring 2007
Syracuse University

Sect. 243, TTh 11-12:2, 213B HBC;
Sect. 272, TTh 12:30-1:50, 213A HBC

Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 237 HB Crouse
Office hours
Phone 315-443-1620
FAX: 315-691-9821
rehoward@syr.edu
AIM: ProfBfromWV


Last updated 7 January 2008

Required texts
  1. Buy one of these two handbooks:

    Blakesley, David, and Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen. The Brief Thomson Handbook. Thomson, 2008.

    Glenn, Cheryl, Robert K. Miller, Suzanne Strobeck Webb, and Loretta Gray. The Writer's Harbrace Handbook. Brief 2nd ed. Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005.

    Additional documents on the Blackboard site, which you will need to print out:

  2. Atkins, Thomas, and Gene Nelson. "Plagiarism and the Internet: Turning the Tables." English Journal 90.4 (2001): 101-104.

  3. Bierut, Michael. "I Am a Plagiarist." Design Observer 11 May 2006.

  4. Brandt, Deborah. "'Who's the President?' Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy." College English 69.6 (July 2007): 549-571.

  5. Brown, Renee, Brian Fallon, Jessica Lott, Elizabeth Matthews, and Elizabeth Mintie. "Taking on Turnitin: Tutors Advocating Change." The Writing Center Journal 27.1(2007): 7-28.

  6. Constable, Giles. "Forgery and Plagiarism in the Middle Ages." Archiv fur Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel-und Wappenkunde 29 (1983): 1-41.

  7. Delbanco, Nicholas. "In Praise of Imitation: On the Sincerest Form of Flattery." Harper's (July 2002): 57-63.

  8. Kolstad, Ivar. "Why Firms Should Not Always Maximize Profits." Journal of Business Ethics 26 (2007): 137-145.

  9. Lethem, Jonathan. "The Ecstasy of Influence." Harper's Feb. 2007: 59-71.

  10. Marsh, Bill. "Turnitin.com and the Scriptural Enterprise of Plagiarism Detection." Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 427-438.

  11. Miller, Keith D. "Martin Luther King, Jr., Borrows a Revolution: Argument, Audience, and Implications of a Secondhand Universe." College English 48 (March 1986): 249-65.

  12. O'Rourke, Meghan. "The Copycat Syndrome." Slate 11 Jan. 2007.

  13. Price, Margaret. "Beyond 'Gotcha!': Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy." College Composition and Communication 54.1 (September 2002): 88-115.

  14. Robillard, Amy E. "Students and Authors in Composition Scholarship." Authorship in Composition Studies. Ed. Tracy Hamler Carrick and Rebecca Moore Howard. New York: Wadsworth, 2006. 41-56.

  15. Rossner, Mike, and Kenneth M. Yamada. "What's in a Picture? The Temptation of Image Manipulation." Journal of Cell Biology 166.1 (2004): 11-15.

  16. Saltmarsh, Sue. "'White Pages' in the Academy: Plagiarism, Consumption and Racist Rationalities." International Journal for Educational Integrity 1.1 (2005).

  17. Stearns, Laurie. "Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World Ed. Alice Roy and Lise Buranen. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 5-18.

  18. Townley, Cynthia, and Mitch Parsell. "Technology and Academic Virtue: Student Plagiarism Through the Looking Glass." Ethics and Information Technology 6.4 (2004): 271-278.

  19. Valentine, Kathryn. "Plagiarism as Literacy Practice: Recognizing and Rethinking Ethical Binaries." College Composition and Communication 58.1 (Sept. 2006): 89-109.

  20. Wadman, Meredith. "Journal Reveals Plans to Fight Fraud." Nature 7 Dec. 2006: 658-59.