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Paper Guidelines | Copying/Pasting | MLA |
Academic honesty is highly valued at this college. You must always submit work that represents your original words or ideas. If any words or ideas used in an exam, assignment, or paper submission do not represent your original words or ideas, you must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used. Words or ideas that require citation include, but are not limited to, all hard copy or electronic publications, whether copyrighted or not, and all verbal or visual communication when the content of such communication clearly originates from an identifiable source. All of the acts below are prohibited:
Cheating - intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
Fabrication - intentional or unauthorized falsification or invention of any information, citation, or document, or lying during an investigation.
Plagiarism - intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one's own in an academic exercise.
Academic dishonesty can also involve:
Note: Any act of plagiarism may result in an "F" on the assignment and/or the course.
When writing papers, use a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. Use a readable font (12), set your paper to left justification, leave an inch margin on all sides of the page, number pages, indent five spaces before each paragraph, and double space. If you use Word, please save the document as a rich text format (RTF) file, then backup on disk. Always make a hard copy and a disk copy of your paper before submitting it, just in case it is misplaced in cyberspace.
Your papers must be free of mechanical, grammatical, and spelling errors. Furthermore, you should utilize a variety of sentence structures and word choices, as well as transitional phrases and sentences. Write from the third person point of view (he, she, it) only. Do not use the first (I) or second (you) person or point of view unless I state otherwise.
Use the present tense when discussing literature or referring to the author's words in a book, article, etc. (Simms observes, Jackson says, etc.). Only use the past tense when discussing real-life past events.
After stating an author's full name for the first time, only use that person's last name from that point on. In professional writing, do not use first names or titles like Mr., Mrs., or Dr.
Underline long works (books, movies, names of magazines, etc.) and use quotation marks for short works (article titles, poems, short stories, etc.).
Before submitting a paper, you need to make the appropriate revisions and vary your word choices. See the links below for guidance:
Once each paper is graded, please note the editing marks. For the code, go to:
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Before sending the paper to me, please take the time to proofread; remember, I am not an editor. If I notice excessive errors or that you have failed to follow directions in the first two paragraphs, I will send your paper back to you ungraded. If you are taking this class online, remember to type the paper number (for example, paper 2) in the subject heading of your message and to include a heading with your full name, course name, and section number.
To send via campus mail, go to the nearest ACC campus mailroom. The personnel in the office will be happy to provide the envelope and send your document directly to me.
All papers should be returned to you with a grade within 2-3 days. (In an online course, please let me know if you have not received your graded paper within 72 hours.) Check your grade in Blackboard to make sure that you have been given credit.
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