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Another aspect to consider when writing about literature is getting your quotations correct. When incorporating quotations from poems into your writing, you must keep the lines exactly as the poet has set them down. Remember, this is what a quotation is: an exact reproduction of the original writing. Take, for example, this quotation from Pope:
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I received 15 responses on Tartuffe via Turn It In. Congratulations for those of you who successfully figured out how to submit a response. If you still need assistance, please see me during my office hours. I had several students try to submit their responses as a comment on this web site or try to [...]

I have finished evaluating the forums for both of my World Lit sections, and I must say I disappointed. Once again (am I sounding like a broken record, yet?) I’d like to remind you that you cannot receive full credit for a forum unless you post more than once. I’ll remind you to have another [...]

The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as “the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one’s own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another,” or “a purloined idea, design, passage, or work.” According to the MSC Student Handbook, plagiarism is “using another’s phrasing, concepts or line [...]

Your work represents you. Therefore, I expect everything you turn into me to exemplify the very best of your professional self. Work should be proofread, rhetorically appropriate, and illustrate your very best writing.
Unless otherwise stated, every out-of-class assignment must be word-processed and submitted via Turn It In or uploaded to LitMUSE. I will not accept any hand-written [...]

I added several help links to MLA Documentation Style to Bedford/St. Martin’s excellent

MLA Documentation Style, or simply MLA style, is used in the humanities when researchers need to give credit to any source — a book, web page, article, CD-ROM, lecture — outside of their own experience. The information here is meant only as a quick guide. You should consult the most current MLA Handbook for Writers [...]