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December 26, 2004

Textual standards

  1. For all written work submitted in this course, follow guidelines in Howard, Writing Matters, Chapter 7, "Formatting," sections 7b, 7c, 7d, and 7g (sent to you in PDF).
  2. Cite sources (with page references) of quotation and summary or paraphrase. Provide a list of works cited. Use the MLA style sheet.
  3. Visible patchwriting—copying from a source text and then deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in one-for-one synonym-substitutes (see also Sandra Jamieson's site at Drew University)—is unacceptable in final-draft doctoral work in composition and rhetoric—and in publications in the field, as well. Nor should you rely excessively on quotation; it indicates a lack of understanding of the source text and/or a lack of confidence in your own authority. Excessive quotation also makes a text tough to read.
  4. Proofread your written work carefully. Mechanical and grammatical errors such as comma splices, sentence fragments, dangling modifiers, incorrect punctuation, and misspellings are also unacceptable in scholarly work. All of us make such errors from time to time, but none of us can afford to become known for them.

Posted by senioritis at December 26, 2004 09:42 AM

Comments

haven't received item #1, please resend.

Posted by: aj at January 3, 2005 07:42 PM