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Be sure to follow these instructions - as applicable:
- Failure to do so will adversely affect your grade.
- If troubles loom, let me know right away so we can avert them.
- Ask me right away if you are uncertain of anything.
- If you have suggestions or requests to change anything - let me know in plenty of time.
- Your continuing enrolment in this class indicates acceptance of these very strict policies.
Class attendance
- It is expected that you come to class prepared to participate.
- You will have read and thought about all required readings, and will have questions or comments on them.
- You will have completed all assignments.
- Although class participation is not graded, it is much easier to give the benefit of any paper-grading doubt to those who have established thier competence by consistent contributions to class discussion.
- If you plan to use class time for texting, sleeping, surfing the web, etc - please do it elsewhere. Attendance is not taken, and neither snoring nor staring at your lap while clicking gently count as contributing to class discussion.
Paper submission requirements
- Download and use the appropriate file as a framework for your paper.
- Submit all parts of your assignment in a single file via
Sakai@UD'Assignments'.
- It is very easy to miss a crucial step in Sakai - make absoultely sure your file has uploaded and saved correctly.
- Make sure you keep a record of the submission confirmation number - no 'Sakai ate my homework' excuses will be entertained without that number.
- If you are in any doubt, email me a backup copy of your submission.
- Don't forget the deadlines!! See 'late submissions' below for an account of the disaster that will result if you are late, and how to avoid it.
References
Whenever you quote, paraphrase, refer to or otherwise make use of any work, published or not, you must ensure that you cite that work properly. The exact format you use and whether you use footnotes or collect references together at the end of a paper does not matter. What does matter is that you give enough information so that anyone reading your paper could track down all the sources that you have used.
- You must always give the author’s name, title of the piece and the year of publication.
- For journal articles also give the journal name and the relevant volume and page numbers. E.g. van Inwagen, Peter (1975). ‘The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism’, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 27, pp.185-99.
- For books give the publisher and the relevant page numbers. E.g. John Perry (1978). A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality. Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis. p.15
- For chapters in books, treat the chapter like a journal article and the book like a book. Remember that the chapter author may be different from the book author (editor) – both should be given.
- For internet resources, give the name of the site, the URL and the date you accessed the information.
NB: Use of sources without citation is plagiarism. Academic integrity is taken very seriously at the University of Delaware, and plagiarism is a grave violation of this standard. Be sure you understand what it is and its implications. It may result your failing the class and other sanctions. (Plagiarism detection software is used.)
Acknowledgements
- Whenever your work has benefited from comments or conversations with someone else (including your colleagues in a class and your revered professor) you must acknowledge that contribution. E.g. Collect acknowledgements at the end of the paper or, to acknowledge specific points, insert a footnote to the effect, “This question was raised by David Hume (personal communication / in conversation / in a lecture on the 15th May…)”
Backup
- However you submit your work, you must keep backups and be prepared to resubmit if needed. Even if it was my fault that your work got lost, it will become your fault if you cannot supply another copy in a timely fashion.
Late submission
- Sakai quizzes cannot be submitted after the deadline.
- Be sure to have a first go at all quizzes as soon as they are available
- You can continue to refine your answers, saving your work as you go along, until you submit the quiz for grading or the deadline - whichever is sooner.
- Late submission and non-submission of written work is a disaster!!!
- Written work (not quizes) will be accepted, by email, up to 24hours after the deadline but will be penalized 50%. In effect this makes A grade work count for less than an F (see the grading scheme) - better to submit on time D grade work than late A grade work.
- Work more than 24h late will not be accepted - it counts as non-submission. That's much worse than an F - a good-faith F will get you some credit, non-submission gets you zero (see the grading scheme).
- How to avoid disaster
- Save something as a draft - however sketchy, however incomplete - as soon as you can
(Since you should be working on your paper well in advance of the deadline, this should ensure you have something in at least a week in advance)
REMEMBER: Do not make a final submission (only save drafts) until you are sure everything is finalized - once you submit you cannot get it back! (And don't worry if you forget to click the final submission button before the deadline - saved drafts become submissions after the deadline.)
- Re-submit improved versions as soon as you have them
- Upload the new version and make sure it is there before your remove the old version.
- If you feel you must do more work after the deadline - email me to let me know that you intend to submit an improved version (by email). I may then (no guarantees) grade the improved version if it gets to me before I get to your original submission.
- If you have trouble submitting via Sakai for any reason, or are unsure that it worked, send your file by email BEFORE THE DEADLINE.
- There are no exceptions to the deadlines
- Failure of your computer or internet connection is not an excuse
- Keep backups
- Leave time to get to a library / other computer if yours fails
- If you must travel at the time of a deadline it is your responsibility to ensure that you either submit before you travel or that you will have reliable, fast internet access while you are away (i.e. don't rely on your grandparents' damp string connection to the local telegraph office).
- Even your own death on the day of the deadline is not a reliable excuse
- All assignments have ample availability: There is simply no excuse for not having something in at least two or three days ahead of time.
Incompletes
- Incompletes are not offered in this class.
Privacy
- All work submitted may be used, in this or in other classes, as an example to help instruction. Work used in this way will be used anonymously.
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