Accommodations for Students with Disabilities:
Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the
Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation
to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor
when requesting accommodation.
Academic Honesty:
As a University of Florida student, your performance is governed by the
UF Honor Code, available in its full form at http://www.reg.ufl.edu/01-02-catalog/student_life/.
The Honor Code requires Florida students to neither give nor receive unauthorized
aid in completing all assignments. Violations include cheating, plagiarism,
bribery, multiple submissions, and misrepresentation, all defined in detail
at http://www.dso.ufl.edu/judicial/honestybrochure.htm.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is a serious violation of the student academic honor code.
You commit plagiarism when you present the ideas or words of someone else
as your own. You commit plagiarism if you use (without crediting the source):
- Any part of another person's essay, speech, or ideas.
- Any part of an article in a magazine, journal, newspaper; any part
of a book, encyclopedia, CD-ROM, online WWW page, etc.
- Any idea from another person or writer, even if you express that
idea in your own words.
Important tip: There should never be a time when you copy and paste something
from the Internet and do not provide the exact location from which it came.
All acts of willful plagiarism will result in failure of the assignment
and will likely result in failure of the entire course.
Documenting Your Work:
Students are responsible for maintaining duplicate copies of all work
submitted in this course and retaining all returned, graded work until
the semester is over. Should the need arise for a re-submission of papers
or a review of graded papers, it is the student's responsibility to have
and make available this material.
Challenging a Grade:
Any complaints about separate assignments should be addressed to me and not to the English Department. If you have any complaints on the final grade, you may see me at the beginning of the next term. If you find that you still have complaints after our meeting, you may express your complaints on a form in the English Department Office (4012 Turlington). The form and accompanying course material will be given to the Director of Writing Program Administration for further action. A review committee may decide to raise, lower, or keep the originally assigned grade. This decision is final. The material submitted will remain on file in the English Department Office.