English

• Intellectual Property


  Property of the mind, output of a person's study and thought
• Avoid creating the impression that they came up with the idea that they are sourcing from the original owner
• Reasons for citing sources

  • Honesty
  • Trust
  • Fairness
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
• Reasons for acknowledging sources

  • Verify information that backs up your argument
  • Avoid plagiarizing
• Citations


  Refer to a specific material that you used to support your work, includes author's name, title of the work, date of the work, page number
• Things you should acknowledge the source of in your paper

  • Quotations
  • Paraphrases
  • Graphics, charts or tables
  • Information that is common knowledge
  • Your own original ideas
  • Your own research such as surveys and experiments
• Quoting


  Copying word for word into your paper using quotation marks
• Paraphrasing


  Restating something in your own words
• Approaches to Literary Criticism

  • Structuralist
  • Moralist
  • Marxist
  • Feminist
  • Formalist
  • Historical
  • Reader-Response
• Structuralist


  • Based on the assumption that all literary works have unyielding universal structures
• Moralist


  • Judges the value of the literature based on its morals or ethical teachings
• Marxist


  • Focuses on how literary works are products of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era's assumptions about class
• Feminist


  • Focuses on feminine representation in literature
• Formalist


  • Views a literary work as separate from the context of its environment, era, and event its author
• Historical


  • Looking beyond the beyond literature at the broader historical and cultural events occurring the time the literary work was written
• Reader-Response


  • Removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead, attempting to describe what goes in the reader's mind during the reading of a text
• When you acknowledge the contributions of others to your work, it is an act of Academic Integrity
• REASONS FOR ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES

  • You verify information that backs up your argument.
  • You avoid plagiarizing.
• Plagiarism


  refers to using the work of others without acknowledging the source.
• You should acknowledge the source of all information in your paper unless it is your own or the information is common knowledge.
• Literary Criticism

  • The art or practice of judging and commenting on literary works.
  • It is the analysis, comparison, evaluation, and interpretation of a work of literature.