Homework Assignment Syllabus: Johnson County Community University

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Homework Assignments Begin on Page 12 Johnson County Community College English 121/Composition I Syllabus Spring 2014 Class Information CRN: 11417 Instructor: Dr. Katherine Karle Mailbox: CC 221 Time: 9:30-10:45, TTh Office Location: CC 231 Ph.: (913) 469-8500, ext. 4149 Location: ATB 134 Office Hours: Email: kkarle@jccc.edu MW 9:30-11:30 T Th 11:30-12:30 and by appointment Course Information Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisites: English 106 or appropriate test Required Texts and Supplies: • The Norton Field Guide to Writing: with Readings. Bullock and Goggin. 2013. • Easy Writer. Lunsford.…show more content…
g., Reading Response/“Texting”/87-95). • Standard Heading for All Out-of-Class Work: Place your name, professor’s name, course title, CRN, and date in the upper left corner. (Page 246 in Easy Writer shows how this heading should look. I’m asking you to include the CRN also. To save space, include the CRN on the same line as the course title.) • Additional Essay Heading: Required for essay drafts and final essays: Use a header to place your last name, a space and the page number in the upper right corner of each page. If you need help with this, see me. • Font Size: Use 11- or 12-point font (the size of the letters should be about the same size as the letters in this document). To be safe, use Times New Roman, 12-point font or Calibri, 11- or 12-point font. Regardless of how a particular program labels the font size, essays should have approximately 11-12 words of three or more letters per line and 21-23 lines per page from page two to the end of the…show more content…
This includes going to the Internet to “get a few ideas” and not documenting the sources of those ideas (that is, the student fails to use parenthetical citations for paraphrases in the text of the student’s essay or fails to use quotation marks around another’s words in addition to parenthetical citations). Failing to document quotations, paraphrases, or another’s ideas results in plagiarism because this failure misrepresents someone else’s words, knowledge, or ideas as the student’s. We’ll learn in class how to use another’s words and ideas without plagiarizing. • Once we’ve discussed plagiarism and practiced using and documenting others’ ideas, if any portion of a student’s essay is plagiarized, the essay may lose up to 20 points. If a student submits an essay in which the majority of the essay is plagiarized, the essay may receive no higher than 50/100, an “F.” If a student submits a second essay in which the majority of the essay is plagiarized, he or she will receive an “F” for Composition

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