1.
Office hours are when I engage you regarding individual concerns. (Not the five minutes before class; not during class; not the five minutes after class.)
2. All course business and work outside of the classroom is conducted on CampusWeb. So, make a routine of being of checking our course site daily.
3. Assume that there is a new
assignment every class day.
4. Computer/tablet use in the classroom is welcomed and encouraged, but proper, academic and scholarly use of technology is expected.
5. Tardy work is accepted but penalized. However, all work is zeroed after the "accepting late work" deadline for each piece of coursework.
6.
Calendar,
Coursework, and
Assignments in the CampusWeb course make crystal clear all requirements, deadlines, and penalties for infractions. Knowing such things is as easy as logging onto the system and clicking on the course. Therefore, there is absolutely no excuse, including being absent from class, for not knowing what is exactly expected of you and when it is expected.
7. Academic dishonesty (Plagiarism, Cheating). Ignorance is no excuse for plagiarism and cheating. It’s either academic dishonesty or it’s not. A single instance of academic dishonesty will result in a FAILURE for the entire course. In addition, a report will be immediately forwarded to the Office of Academic Affairs so that the University may take action. The Franklin Pierce Academic Catalogue provides a precise definition of plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the act of stealing or passing as one’s own the ideas or words of another. Diana Hacker identifies three specific acts that constitute plagiarism: “(1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks and(3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words” (359 and 418). Specifically, this includes: copying the words of another student from examinations, themes, term papers, or theses; copying the printed words or ideas of a writer without giving credit to the author; using, borrowing, stealing, presenting or downloading another student’s ideas or writing and submitting such material as one’s own work; or resubmitting work in whole or in part that has previously been submitted in another course, without permission of the current instructor.
Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
For a more detailed explanation and specific examples, please refer to sections MLA-2, APA-2, and CMS-2 in Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference.