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Paper Requirements

Students should communicate ideas effectively through standard written English.

Written prose should demonstrate a familiarity with rhetorical conventions of our discipline and should be free from mechanical, spelling, or grammatical errors.

Any paper which provides more than 20% direct quotation is not eligible for passing grades.

Paper Format

All papers should be typed or word processed and should conform to MLA formatting and citation stylesheets. Review formatting guidelines. here.

Peer Evaluation Policy

Completed typed drafts must be peer evaluated by the stated deadline for final versions to be eligible for passing grades.

Submission Guidelines

Weekly Reflective Writing

Each week, when you turn in your ERP assignment, you will include a reflective cover memo to situate, explain, and examine your practical experience in light of your theoretical readings

These 1000 word papers should look backwards (to your previous understanding and work) and forwards (to how you anticipate this new information will be important to your future work). In addition to conveying the practical results of your ERP work, the reflection should review the readings and other work for the week, should place that new reading in the context of other readings completed, should assess how that reading contributes to an evolving understanding of the history of the book, broadly, and one's own intellectual development, specifically. These reflections will form a history of your engagements with our course materials and will prove helpful in preparing for your final examination.

Students should expect to read from their reflections or share that work in some way; therefore, one should bring a second copy of that work to class each week to use in any exercises or other work.

• ERP assignments are due by 10am, CST, on Mondays. At 10.01 a.m., papers are late (see late paper policy).
  
  This deadline gives you the maximum possible time to finish assignments, while allowing me time to assess work informally before our class meeting.
  
  
• Send ERP assignments from TTU email accounts only. There is no flexibility on this requirement.
  
  
• Attach ERP assignments as .doc (not docx) and .rtf files.
  
  
• Name the file according to this protocol:

  5340-assignment_number-your_last_name.file_type

  Example: "5340-erp2-Smith.doc."

• Submissions that do not follow these protocols will not be graded.

Formal papers

• Formal papers should be submitted in hard copy in a letter-size file folder (color: manila only), without staples or paper clips.
• Formal papers are due in hard copy at the beginning of our class (6 p.m. promptly)
• Submissions for formal papers include the following items: final revised draft, revision plan, peer evaluation, peer-evaluated draft, other drafts, prewriting. Items should be placed in the order listed above (i. e., most recent items on top).
• Incomplete submissions are not eligible for passing grades.

Late Submission of Work

• If an emergency hinders you from turning in a paper on time, please talk to me before the paper is due. I am rarely sympathetic after a due date.
• Delays in computer labs or problems with your own computer or printer are not acceptable excuses for late papers. If you use a computer lab, allow plenty of time to print so that your paper will not be late.

Daily Work and Homework. I do not accept late daily work or homework.

Essential Research Practices. Essential research practices are new skills. Since it sometimes takes a little extra time to learn a new skill, there is a limited-use late research exercise submission deadline.

• You may turn in one late research exercise without penalty as long as it is submitted by the late submission deadline of Friday midnight.
• The 2nd late research exercise will receive one grade off (10%) of the earned grade.
• The 3rd and any subsequent late research exercise (or any exercise received after noon) will be accepted to fulfill the minimum work requirement, but can earn no higher than an F (scored as a 50). To earn the 50 instead of a 0, late papers must meet word-length requirements and fulfill the requirements of the assignment.

• If your paper is late (after 6 pm. on the appropriate date), it will be accepted to fulfill the minimum work requirement, but can earn no higher than an F (50).
• To earn the 50 instead of a 0, late papers must meet word-length requirements and fulfill the requirements of the assignment.

Unacceptable work

An assessment of 'revise and resubmit' on an assignment means that the work was in some way unacceptable. It is essential then to revise that work and resubmit it by the due date indicated. Failure to revise and resubmit work in a timely fashion will result in an F being recorded for that assignment.

Academic Dishonesty

I consider plagiarism and all other forms of intellectual dishonesty serious breaches of the contract between a student, her/his fellows, and their teacher. Plagiarizing materials warrants, at the least, failure for the assignment; and, in many cases, in the course. I reserve as well the option of requesting that the administration suspend you from the university.

Plagiarism is intellectual theft existing in several forms:

• (1) the word-for-word copying of a passage, without quotations marks and a parenthetical citation indicating that the phrasing and ideas are another author's;
• (2) the partial quotation and paraphrase of a passage, without appropriate quotation marks and a parenthetical citation indicating that the phrasing and ideas are another author's;
• (3) the complete paraphrase of a passage, without an explanatory footnote or appropriate parenthetical citations indicating that the ideas are another author's. (Definition used with permission).

For more information on cheating and plagiarism, please see the Texas Tech Academic Catalogue.

If you have any questions on how to avoid plagiarism and to use sources appropriately, please come see me.