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

In this course, your blog should represent your critical and creative ideas and feelings about the literature read, ideas discussed, activities assigned, and all other aspects of the course. Topics for your blog entries may occasionally be assigned, but often they will be chosen by you and they should be about 350-500 words.

Our study will attempt to emphasize creating a supportive classroom climate for active learning through a positive group building process. Since active learning is student orientated and may appear to involve risk-taking, the course will focus on establishing trust, confidence, and respect between the professor and students and among the students. To advance this climate [...]

Go to Class Even though you can get notes elsewhere, without hearing the lecture and participating in the discussion, you will probably not have the prior knowledge or cognitive framework necessary to assimilate the externally provided notes.

Most writers know that copying another’s work word for word without giving author credit is considered plagiarism. But they often assume that this practice is frowned on only when long passages are involved — whole pages or paragraphs. Consequently, they feel free to copy phrases and sentences without using quotation marks or acknowledgments. Actually, any [...]

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 [...]

In an effort to clarify each letter grade, I developed this chart. Note that the professor does not give grades, the student must earn them. The grade of A on paper means that it excels in most or all of the following ways: Treatment of subject shows good critical intelligence, careful workmanship, and originality. Organization [...]