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Unit
One
***It
Would Be to Your Advantage to Print Out This Unit
Before
Beginning the Assignments***
In this unit:
- You
will be introduced to Internet E-Mail.
- You
will read material in the textbook and answer questions about that
material.
- You
will complete an exercise on plagiarism.
- You
will complete a works cited exercise.
- Since
these are your first assignments, and you have much to learn about the
software that you will use to communicate with your instructor, read the
lectures in this assignment very carefully. If you are in the computer lab
or library, you may print them out and take them home to study if you
wish.
If you cannot meet assignment due dates, please contact your
instructor by e-mail before the due dates. If you are behind in your
assignments, no more than one paper may be submitted in any given week unless
it is a summer session, a winter intersession, or you have made prior
arrangements with your instructor. NOTE: This does not include
preliminary writing assignments, only papers.
Assignment 1: 5 Points
NOTE** You
MUST set up an MCC e-mail
account. You will not be on your instructor's distribution list if you do not
use MCC e-mail, and you will miss any mailings your instructor may send out to
the entire class. If you have not set up your account yet, you need to log in
to the address below and create this account now. If you do not yet have
Internet access at home, you can create this e-mail account from MCC's library
or computer lab. If you prefer to use another e-mail account for
communicating with your instructor, you still need to set up the MCC e-mail
account. You can then set it to forward any mail from your instructor to your
preferred e-mail address. Click on the web page below to set up your
MCC e-mail account:
MyMCC
(https://orion.mesacc.edu/portal/)
***When you are finished, return here.
Click on your instructor's e-mail
address below:
Type and send a message to
your instructor telling her something about yourself, why you chose to take
English 102 by Internet. This message should be 50 - 100 words. This
assignment will demonstrate that you can correctly use the E-MAIL system, let
your instructor know that you are active in the course, and give her your
e-mail address.
NOTE: From this point on, all assignments
need to be done in a word processing program and sent to your instructor as an
attachment through e-mail.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not
use Microsoft Word to type your assignments, you must save your assignments as
Microsoft Word documents before sending them as attachments.
Complete the following assignment in
your word processing program.
Read pp. 107 through 115 in A Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition by Diana Hacker for information on plagiarism and citing
sources.
Answer the following questions about the
information you have read in A
Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition in your word processing program.
The questions do not have to be listed, and the answers do not have to be in
complete sentences. Simply write the number of the question and then a short
answer.
1.
What are the two reasons that outside sources must be
cited in researched writing?
2.
What are the three ways that sources are cited in
researched writing?
3.
What are the three acts that are considered
plagiarism?
4.
Why is a signal phrase used, and what is included in
it?
5.
What are the five circumstances when you should use
direct quotations?
6.
Is it always necessary quote full sentences from a
source?
7.
Why would an ellipsis mark be used?
8.
What is a long quotation?
9.
How are long quotations set apart from the rest of the
text?
10.How
should long quotations be introduced?
Save and name this assignment assign2
- IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not use Microsoft Word
to type your assignments, you must save this assignment as a Microsoft
Word document before sending it as an attachment.
Send this assignment to your instructor's e-mail
address as an attachment.
- When
asked for SUBJECT, type "Your
Last Name" Assign. 2 -- i.e. Smith's Assign. 2
Complete the following
plagiarism exercise:
- Highlight
the exercise below, copy it, paste it into your word processor, and save
it.
- Once it
is saved, open it in your word processor.
Plagiarism
Exercise
The excerpt below is taken from an address
made in 1921 by Alfred M. Hitchcock, once an English teacher, but now
recognized as a prominent film director. The address was given to a convention
of English teachers in New York City. Read the excerpt carefully at least
twice. You will need to be familiar with it in order to complete the plagiarism
exercise that follows it.
Two
more [conditions posing problems to the teaching of English] remain which are
not so commonly mentioned, though I think they deserve thoughtful
consideration.
The first of these is the present day spirit of youth. I cannot
adequately define it, nor trace it to any six capital sources; nor will I
utterly denounce it, nor prophesy where it will lead. I do not think it
possible wholly to change it by removing discoverable sources, nor do I
advocate prosecuting it as criminal, nor absolutely complying with its demands.
I can do little more than proclaim it. Boys and girls of today are not like the
boys and girls of the previous generation. You know it. They know it. Human
(Taken from page 5 to this point. The
remainder of the excerpt is from page 6.)
nature,
it is true, does not change; but it is characteristic of human nature, under
certain conditions, to pass through strange moods. What has wrought the change?
Moving pictures, jazz, and the automobile? Is it the first page or pictorial
section prominence given to the activities of the facial charms of school
children? Can it be traced in part to new methods of teaching? Is it the War,
which made men and women of boys and girls, filled their pockets with spending
money, loosened restraint in school and home and made it almost necessary to
sanction undesirable liberty? Are the fascinating newspapers and the cheaper
magazines, which are so rapidly displacing books; periodicals furnishing a
panorama of all that happens, scandalous and otherwise, are they to blame? Is
it the morals of pleasure-loving elders, or a reflection of the mood of
unskilled labor suddenly thrust into unwonted prosperity and power? I do not
know. But sometimes I wonder if the Hamelin magician has not piped away our
boys and girls and substituted changeling youth prematurely old, high
tensioned, craving excitement, unable to concentrate, impatient under all
restraint, skeptical concerning all authority, scorning any past more remote
than day before yesterday, confident of the future without the aid of solid
preparation; yet happy, beautiful as never before, active, self-possessed,
capable, likable, with all their failings enviable, lovable, and I believe,
sound at heart, full of promise, the best crop the world has ever produced. No,
I cannot adequately define the spirit of our youth; but I insist that it is
something new, in part explaining our seeming failure, and certainly to be
reckoned with in planning courses in literature and composition, where to kill
the spirit and to give it free rein are alike fatal.
The bibliographical information for the
except is:
Hitchcock, Alfred M. New Problems in
the Teaching of English.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921,
5-6.
Several examples of how the passage
above might be used in a documented essay or research paper are shown below.
Only some of the examples demonstrate correct punctuation and correct
acknowledgement of the source. Your task is to determine which examples
demonstrate correct MLA documentation and which do not. Look carefully at every
aspect of the passages including the details of punctuation as well as the
citations. Identify each passage as correct or incorrect. For those examples
that are incorrect, briefly explain what needs to be done to correct the
example. You may find it helpful to review pages 127 through 135 of your text
prior to doing this exercise.
1. Every
generation is different. The boys and girls of today are not like the boys and
girls of the previous generation. You know it. They know it. Is this correct or incorrect? If it is
incorrect, explain why.
2. Hitchcock
said, "I cannot adequately define the spirit of our youth; but I insist
that it is something new, in part explaining our seeming failure, and certainly
to be reckoned with […]"
(Hitchcock, p. 6). Is this correct or
incorrect? If it is incorrect, explain why.
See pages 77 and
110-111 of your text for information on using ellipsis marks.
3. People of
every age have experienced a generation gap of sorts. In 1921, Alfred M. Hitchcock
questioned whether it was the War, which made men and women of boys and girls,
filled their pockets with spending money, loosened restraint in school and home
and made it almost necessary to sanction undesirable liberty (6). Is this correct or incorrect? If it is
incorrect, explain why.
4. When
referring to the attitudes and behaviors of the youth of his day, one noted
film director did "not think it possible to wholly change it[…]," and neither did he "advocate prosecuting
it as criminal, nor absolutely complying with its demands" (Hitchcock 5).
Is this correct or incorrect? If
it is incorrect, explain why.
5. Certainly,
"it is characteristic of human nature, under certain conditions, to pass
through strange moods" that leave people wondering about the causes for
such changes (6). Is this correct
or incorrect? If it is incorrect, explain why.
6. When trying
to explain a younger generation’s changes in values, people have questioned
many different circumstances such as wars, the media, wealth, and declining
moral values modeled by adults (Hitchcock 6). Is this correct or incorrect? If it is incorrect, explain why.
Plagiarism is the act of using the
language or ideas of another author as one’s own original work. I am aware that
plagiarism is an act of dishonesty that may result in serious academic
penalties in this course.
Type or write your name:
__________________________________________
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- IMPORTANT
NOTE: If you do not use Microsoft Word to type your assignments, you must
save this assignment as a Microsoft Word document before sending it as an
attachment.
Send this assignment to your instructor's e-mail
address as an attachment.
- When
asked for SUBJECT, type "Your
Last Name" Assign. 3 -- i.e. Smith's Assign. 3
Complete the following assignment in
your word processing program.
Read pages 107 to 154 in A Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition by Diana Hacker for
information on formatting works cited entries and
preparing the works cited page.
Works
Cited Exercise
Each of the passages below contains
information about a source that was used in a research paper. Read the passages
and use the information provided in them to create a correctly formatted
bibliographical entry. Once you have created all of bibliographical entries,
put them in proper order to create a correctly formatted MLA style Works Cited
page. Your finished product should look like an actual Works Cited page rather
than a list of answers to an exercise. Look at page 141 of your text for an
example of an MLA style Works Cited page.
1.
A book containing many chapters, each written by a
different author, contains a chapter entitled Rumblings of Discontent, which
was used in a student’s paper. M. K.
Gandhi wrote this chapter. It is found on pages 18 through 21 of a book
entitled World Without Violence. The editor of the book is Dr. Arun Gandhi. It was published in 1994 by a publishing
company called Wiley Eastern Limited. The place it was published was New Delhi,
India.
2.
A newspaper article, published on July 30, 2000, was
titled, Activists for all causes Rally. It was found in the Arizona Republic.
No author was listed, but the article was credited to the associated press. It
appeared in section A, page 6.
3.
A student writer conducted an interview with a
professor at Utah State University. The
professor’s name was Rachael E. Goodman. The interview took place at 11:00 a.m.
on Oct. 23, 2000. Rachel E. Goodman was the chair of the philosophy department.
4.
An article from the magazine, U.S. News and World
Report, was titled Who’s Calling the Shots? The article was found on pages 37 and
38. The magazine was published on October 30, 2000. It was written by Kevin
Whitelaw.
5.
An article was taken from CD-ROM edition of Encarta
published in 1998 by Microsoft. The article was titled Gandhi, Mohandas K. No
author was listed. The article included graphics.
6.
An article was found on the Internet on a personal web
site. The title of the article is Our Best Hope. It was found at
http://www.covrstne/gemskies.com on Sept. 19, 2000. No author was listed.
7.
The Literary Life and Other Curiosities is a book by
Robert Hendrickson containing a collection of quotations. Penguin Books
published the book in Middlesex, England. The copyright date is 1981. A
quotation was used in a student paper from a section called Unusual Endings on
page109.
8.
An article was taken from the magazine, The Wilson
Quarterly, published in the winter of 2001. One article was written by Anthony Aveni and was titled Is Harmony at the Heart of Things? It
appears on pages 54 through 65.
9.
A quotation was taken from the video tape, Empire of
the Sun. It is a drama produced by Warner Brothers. It starred John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
and Christian Bale. It was directed by Steven Spielberg.
10.
A student writing a paper received an e-mail from his
instructor and used a passage from the e-mail in his paper. The subject of the
e-mail was Comments on the Gulf War. The e-mail was sent on Jan. 4, 1999. The
instructor was Leonard J.
Reynolds.
Create a properly formatted works cited page in your
word processor using the information given in the Works Cited Exercise above.
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not use Microsoft Word
to type your assignments, you must save this assignment as a Microsoft
Word document before sending it as an attachment.
Send this
assignment to your instructor's e-mail address as an attachment.
- When asked
for SUBJECT, type "Your Last
Name" Assign. 4 -- i.e. Smith's Assign. 4
Total
Points for Unit 1: 35
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