1. Find help documenting sources by using the Expository Writing Program website.From the Oberlin College Homepage go to Students on the left menu and under Campus Resources on the left menu there go to Offices and Departments.Pull down Majors and Programs menu to get to Expository Writing, which will take you to a list of offices, where you'll also have to scroll down to Expository Writing and click on it.
When you get to the Expository Writing Program homepage, click Online Resources on the left menu to go to The Oberlin College Online Writing Lab and then to Writing Resources where the first entry is our Peer Online Writing Lab (POWL).
2. On the POWL, click on "Documenting and Citing Sources," which takes you to a "Documentation Styles" handout. Answer these questions:
a. What institution maintains this handout? When was it last updated?b. How would you cite this handout using MLA style? using APA style? using CBE style?
3. Take a look at the Oberlin Honor Code, especially sections A & B and section C article I section 5 F , and answer the following questions:
a. How might the Honor Code apply to papers for this class? How might it apply to papers that you write for other classes at Oberlin?b. Were you previously aware of the penalties for plagiarism and other offenses of the Honor Code?
c. What general campus attitude toward the Honor Code have you found at Oberlin? What have you heard about it in other classes? What have you heard about it from other students?
4. Tell me what you thought of our reading for today, David Rothenberg's "How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers." Here are a few questions I'm especially curious about:
Do you think it's fair for Rothenberg to judge the whole Internet's usefulness as a source of information for research papers on the basis of the papers submitten by one class? If so, why? If not, why not and how might he approach the question differently?Do you agree with what Rothenberg says about the quality of the information you obtain on the Internet? If so, why? If not, why not? What has been your experience using information from the Internet in assignments for Oberlin College classes (if you have had such experience)?
Are there any advantages to researching a topic on the Internet that Rothenberg does not recognize?
What do you suppose students could do to counteract the effects on their writing that the Internet might have? What implications might new sources of information on the Internet have for documentation and Oberlin's Honor Code?
5. Send your answers to questions under 2, 3, and 4 above in an email message to Jan.Cooper@oberlin.edu.