Webster’s: Plagiarism: an act or instance of plagiarizing; something plagiarized. Plagiarize: to steal and pass off as one’s own the ideas or words of another; to present as one’s own an idea or product derived from an existing source. Thrall, Hibbard, and Holman, A Handbook to Literature: Literary theft. A writer who steals the PLOT […]
Thoughts on Writing Research Papers
One should tell the truth, not speak at length – Democritus It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak, another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau It is now necessary to warn the writer that his concern for the reader must be pure: he must sympathize with the reader’s plight (most readers are in […]
Guidelines & Mechanics for Written Work
Academic writing follows many forms. The following is purposefully blunt and often obvious. Each student must take responsibility for understanding questions of citation, which involves issues ranging from plagiarism to the niceties of footnotes and bibliography. Your paper(s) must be legibly ‘typed;’ whether in the old-fashioned way or by computer, the paper should be white […]
Seminar Critiques: Reading – Writing – Discussion
Seminar discussion has a long tradition and is not far removed from the criteria for writing what we have called ‘critiques.’ The following should be considered in dealing with writing, whether in preparing critical reviews of required texts or seminar discussion. It is important to state succinctly, in several sentences, the author’s thesis. The thesis […]
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General Reference Edwards, Paul, Editor-in-Chief. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8 vols., New York and London: Macmillan and The Free Press, 1967. Authoritative articles on major concepts in philosophy, arranged alphabetically. Gillispie, Charles Coulston, Editor-in-Chief. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 15 vols. & index, New York: Charles Scribner, 1970-80. Authoritative reference on the history of science, biographical by […]