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NOTE: Before beginning assignments, you can copy and paste this
grade sheet and calendar into your word processing program, and it can then be
printed as a word document.
Grade Sheet & Calendar for
Computer/Internet English 102
Summer I 2009
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Unit 1…..Due Dates Assignment 1: Mail Msg. to Inst:5 __ 6/2/09 Assignment 2: Textbk. Quest: 10 ____ 6/3/09 Assignment 3: Plagiarism Ex.: 10_______6/3/09 Assignment 4: Works Cited Ex..: 10 ___ 6/8/09 Unit 1 Total: ____________ _ (35 Points Possible) |
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Unit 3 …..Due Dates Assignment 8: Outline, Thesis, Intro 10 ____6/10/09 Assignment 9: First Doc. Paper: 100 ______ 6/15/09 Unit 3 Total: _______________ ( 110 Points Possible) |
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Unit 4…..Due Dates Assignment 10: Outline, Thesis, Intro 10 ____ 6/16/09 Assignment 11: Second Doc. Paper: 100_____ 6/22/09 Unit 4 Total: _______________ ( 110 Points Possible) |
Unit 5…..Due Dates Assignment 12: Outline, Thesis, Intro 15 ___6/23/09 Assignment 13: Final Doc. Paper: 200 _____ 6/29/09 Assignment 14: Course Evaluation: 10 _____ 6/30/09 (This is the last
day work will be accepted.) Unit 5 Total: ________________ (225 Points Possible) |
Total Course Points: _________ (480 Points Possible) Percentage:_____________ Final Course
Grade: _______ |
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 and the
rest of the class, read the lectures in this assignment very carefully. If
you are in the lab, you may print them out and take them home to study if
you wish.
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:
***When you are finished, return here.
Click on your instructor's e-mail address below:
Type a message to your instructor
telling her something about yourself, why you chose to take English 102 by
Internet or Independent Study, etc. 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.
When you have finished typing your message, click on Send to transmit the message to
your instructor.
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**NOTE: It is extremely
important that you check your e-mail at least twice each week. Since this is
not a classroom lecture course, when your instructor needs to communicate
with you, whether it be tips on the current assignments, announcements, or
just news for the class, this communication will come over e-mail. |
NOTE: From this point on, all writings
need to be done in a word processing program and sent to your instructor as an
attachment through Internet e-mail. If you are working in the MCC Computer Lab,
you will use Microsoft Word, and you will need to have a formatted disk
in the "A" drive.
- 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 to 110 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.
- What
are the two reasons that outside sources must be cited in researched
writing?
- What
are the three ways that sources are cited in researched writing?
- What
are the three acts that are considered plagiarism?
- Why is
a signal phrase used, and what is included in it?
- What
are the five circumstances when you should use direct quotations?
- Is it
always necessary quote full sentences from a source?
- Why
would an ellipsis mark be used?
- What is
a long quotation?
- How are
long quotations set apart from the rest of the text?
- 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.
See the
following instructions on how to send this assignment to your instructor's e-mail
address through Internet e-mail as an attachment.)
Sending
Attachments
NOTE: If you are not
experienced in sending attachments, it would be to your advantage to print this
document.
You will be turning your assignments in to
your instructor by sending them as attachments through e-mail.
You will need to write your assignments in a word processing program
(preferably Microsoft Word 6.0 or higher if possible). You will NOT
be able to copy and paste your assignments into e-mail, because you will lose
important formatting that the document contains such as italicizing or
underlining, centering, etc.
Use the following directions
to send an attachment using Netscape Messenger Express:
- Write your assignment in Microsoft Word and save it
to your disk in the A drive or on your hard drive if
working from home. NOTE: If you are using another word processing
program such as Works or Word Perfect, be sure to save your document as a
Microsoft Word document before sending it to your instructor.
- Log on to the MyMCC Portal by
entering your username and password.
- Click on My Mail.
- A window will pop up and you will be asked to enter
your username and password again.
- Click on Compose at the upper left
corner of your e-mail screen. This will take you to the Compose
Message screen.
- In the Add Recipient window, type
in your instructor's entire e-mail address.
- Click on To on the right side of
the Add Recipient window.
- Click in the Subject window and
type in the name of your assignment. Be sure to name your
assignments according to the instructions which are given at the end of
each assignment in the course.
- Click in the message window and type your first and
last name. You can also type the assignment name again if you choose and
any message you may wish to send your instructor.
- Click on Attach in the upper left
corner of the screen.
- Click on Browse to select your
file. A File Upload window will open.
- At the bottom of the File Upload
screen, click on the down arrow at the right side of the Files of
Type window.
- Click on All Files (*.*).
- Click on the down arrow at the right side of the Look
in window at the top of the File Upload screen.
- Find your file on your floppy disk in the A
drive or on your hard drive if working from home.
- Select your file to highlight it and click on Open
at the bottom right corner of the screen.
- This will take you back to the Attach File
screen.
- Click on Attach.
- Click on Continue in the Security
Information screen.
- This will take you back to the Compose
Message screen.
- Click on Send in the upper left
corner of the screen.
- Your assignment has been sent.
- When your assignment is graded, you will receive a
message either telling you how many points you received for it (smaller
assignments) or it will be returned to you as an attachment.
To see your graded assignment sent to you as an attachment, you will save
the file and then look at it in your word processor.
Use the following directions
to send an attachment using Netscape Communicator mail:
- Write your assignment in Microsoft Word and save it
to your disk in the A drive or on your hard drive if
working from home. NOTE: If you are using another word processing
program such as Works or Word Perfect, be sure to save your document as a
Microsoft Word document before sending it to your instructor.
- Open Netscape Communicator.
- Enter Netscape Communicator e-mail
by clicking on the Inbox icon (the fourth icon
from the right) at the lower right corner of the Netscape
Communicator screen.
- Enter your password if asked for it.
- Click on New Msg in the upper left
corner of the e-mail screen. A Composition screen will
open.
- Enter your instructor's e-mail address in the To
window at the top of the Composition screen.
- Click in the Subject window and
type in the name of your assignment. Be sure to name your
assignments according to the instructions which are given at the end of
each assignment in the course.
- Click in the message window and type your first and
last name. You can also type the assignment name again if you choose and
any message you may wish to send your instructor.
- Click on Attach at the top of the Composition
screen.
- Click on File. An Enter
file to attach screen will open.
- If All Files (*.*) is not showing
in the Files of Type window at the bottom of the screen,
click on the down arrow at the right side of the Files of Type
window and click on All Files (*.*).
- Click on the down arrow at the right side of the Look
in window at the top of the Enter file to attach screen.
- Find your file on your floppy disk in the A
drive or on your hard drive if working from home.
- Select your file to highlight it and click on Open
at the bottom right corner of the screen.
- This will take you back to the Composition
screen.
- Click on Send in the upper left
corner of the screen.
- Your assignment has been sent.
- When your assignment is graded, you will receive a
message either telling you how many points you received for it (smaller
assignments) or it will be returned to you as an attachment.
To see your graded assignment sent to you as an attachment, you will save
the file and then look at it in your word processor.
Send this assignment to your instructor's
private e-mail address through Internet e-mail 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
·
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.
·
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.
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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:
__________________________________________
Save and name this assignment assign3
- 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
private e-mail address through Internet e-mail 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 entries need to be double spaced. assignment above.
Save and name this assignment assign4
- 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 private
e-mail address through Internet e-mail 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
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR SUMMER SCHOOL
STUDENTS:YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO UNIT 2 IN THE SUMMER! PLEASE GO TO UNIT 3!
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