Rules, etc. As necessary, we will discuss the academic rules and the classroom rules involving mutual respect, courtesy, etc. My impression (based on the past three decades of teaching graduate students here at Purdue) is that you all know how to read, write, and talk within a classroom setting and have some sense of academic standards and practices. We will discuss these more, in theory and practice, later on. For now, only one issue deserves special attention. Plagiarism: Presenting as your own ideas or words that you have borrowed from someone else is plagiarism. Plagiarism is the most serious of academic sins. Plagiarism is grounds for failure in the course and disciplinary measures that might include expulsion from the university. The typical case of plagiarism is when a student is attempting to describe something in the assigned readings. If you are writing and your textbook is open then you should include a reference to that page (Tucker, p. 100). In fact, if you are looking for the answer in the text then you probably are not yet ready to write. Trying to rephrase the writing of a professional is much too hard. Invariably you wind up borrowing. It is easier to simply quote the text, but you don’t want your essay to be a string of quotes. The key is to read first, then think, then write. Repeat as necessary. Bibliography (required reading in bold) Aristotle. Politics (Oxford University Press, 1995) Augustine, City of (Doubleday, 1958) Comte, Auguste. ral View of Positivism (Robert speller and Sons, 1957) Durkeim, Emile. Division of Labor in Society (Free Press, 1984) --- Rules of the Sociological Method (Free Press, 1982) --- Suicide (Free Press, 1987) --- Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Free Press, 1995) Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton, 1969) Hegel, G.W. sophy of Right (Prometheus, 1996) Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason (Prometheus, 1996) Lenin, V.I. Imperialism: The Highest State of (China Books, 1975)
Rules, etc. As necessary, we will discuss the academic rules and the classroom rules involving mutual respect, courtesy, etc. My impression (based on the past three decades of teaching graduate students here at Purdue) is that you all know how to read, write, and talk within a classroom setting and have some sense of academic standards and practices. We will discuss these more, in theory and practice, later on. For now, only one issue deserves special attention. Plagiarism: Presenting as your own ideas or words that you have borrowed from someone else is plagiarism. Plagiarism is the most serious of academic sins. Plagiarism is grounds for failure in the course and disciplinary measures that might include expulsion from the university. The typical case of plagiarism is when a student is attempting to describe something in the assigned readings. If you are writing and your textbook is open then you should include a reference to that page (Tucker, p. 100). In fact, if you are looking for the answer in the text then you probably are not yet ready to write. Trying to rephrase the writing of a professional is much too hard. Invariably you wind up borrowing. It is easier to simply quote the text, but you don’t want your essay to be a string of quotes. The key is to read first, then think, then write. Repeat as necessary. Bibliography (required reading in bold) Aristotle. Politics (Oxford University Press, 1995) Augustine, City of (Doubleday, 1958) Comte, Auguste. ral View of Positivism (Robert speller and Sons, 1957) Durkeim, Emile. Division of Labor in Society (Free Press, 1984) --- Rules of the Sociological Method (Free Press, 1982) --- Suicide (Free Press, 1987) --- Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Free Press, 1995) Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton, 1969) Hegel, G.W. sophy of Right (Prometheus, 1996) Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason (Prometheus, 1996) Lenin, V.I. Imperialism: The Highest State of (China Books, 1975)
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