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ENGLISH 104 and 203: RESOURCES
This page includes a miscellaneous and rather chaotic collection of links to internet resources that I have stumbled across that may or may not help you. As I find more resources, I will be updating this page. If you find any web resources that you find especially helpful, feel free to pass the information along to me.
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Our text, The Penguin Handbook, has an accompanying web site at http://www.ablongman.com/faigley. This site includes chapter quick references, additional sample papers, sample citations, information about electronic research, and other helpful links.
Purdue University's Online Writing Center (OWL) offers MLA, APA, and other documentation style information; furthermore, they provide handouts on common technical and grammatical errors.
For helpful information on MLA style (and some other writing tips), see http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html This site offers numerous MLA citation form samples.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center's Writer's Handbook provides similar documentation style guides, including APA, APSA, Chicago/Turabian, CBE, and MLA.
D.G. Jerz, of Seton Hill University, maintains an impressive site of writing handouts, which include handouts on writing different genres of essays, improving your writing style, and on evaluating sources. This site would definitely be worth checking out!
Remember, if you plagiarize, you will face severe penalties, including failing this course and possibly being suspended from Indiana State University. Please familiarize yourself with the University of Kentucky's Student Code.
The Penguin Handbook covers ways to avoid plagiarizing; see pages 322-35. For additional tips on avoiding plagiarism, visit the University of California - Davis Student Judicial Affairs Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism.
Try to avoid using only male pronouns when you are speaking about both men and women. If you write that "man has the power to overcome tremendous obstacles," do you mean that only man can, or does your language unintentionally exclude females. For tips on using gender neutral language, read Virginia L. Warren's "Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language."
If you review the course attendance/participation grade policy, you will see that disruptive behavior will have an effect on your grade. For an idea of what constitutes disruptive behavior, please see Dr. Christopher Lee's (a former professor of mine at Canisius College) statement on Classroom Etiquette.
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