Avoid Plagiarism! Cite Your Sources

(1)  IN-TEXT CITATIONS are required for all summaries, paraphrases, and direct quotations (which should also be enclosed in quotation marks) from course sources, as well as from any outside sources used,  given in your Seminar Written Prep.  EXAMPLES:

Many Enlightenment thinkers believed that reason, rather than emotion, should guide human endeavor (Agatucci).

Enlightenment philosophers argued that "reason and direct [empirical] observation" should be employed to "discover the fundamental laws governing nature, humanity and society," and "to correct the errors" of the present status quo (Davis and others 13).

"In the celebrated Age of Reason, with its emphasis upon liberty and independence, she [Mary Wollstonecraft] argued, women had been left out of the picture" (Davis and others 525).

In her Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft condemns the "false system of education" given women by men who are "more anxious to make them [women] alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers" (Wollstonecraft 526). 

One reason Equiano gives for writing his Narrative is to "promot[e] the interests of humanity," particularly his African "countrymen" who have suffered the brutalities of slavery (474).

(2)  WORKS CITED list of all sources cited should be given at the end of your Seminar Written Prep.  EXAMPLES:

Agatucci, Cora, ed.  "European Enlightenment Overview: Mid- & Later 18th Century Period." [Enhanced
         Print Version.]  3 Apr. 2007. English 109: Western World Literature: Modern, Central Oregon
         Community College, Spring 2007. 3 Apr. 2007 <http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/
         eng109/enlightenment_print.htm>.
Davis, Paul, and others, ed. Western Literature in a World Context. Vol. 2: The Enlightenment through
          the Present. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Equiano, Olaudah. "From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa
          the African." [1789.] Rpt. in Western Literature in a World Context. Vol. 2. Ed. Paul Davis and others.
          New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 473-489.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Introduction to the First Edition. [1792.] Rpt.
         in Western Literature in a World Context. Vol. 2. Ed. Paul Davis and others. New York:
         St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 526-528.

Seminar #1 Learning Objectives: 
Eng 109 - Prof. Cora Agatucci - Spring 2007

Adapted from ENG 109 Syllabus: ENG 109 Learning Outcomes #1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, & 8:

A. Knowledge of Western World Literature

1.  Identify the timeframes, significant intellectual trends and cultural values, and favored literary genres of major Western literary-historical periods of the late 18^th to the early 21^st centuries
(for example, late Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Modernism, Absurdist and Existential literature, Magical Realism, Post-Modernism, Feminism, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, and/or contemporary global trends).
2.  Identify major writers and their works representative of Modern Western literary-historical periods.
3. Explain and illustrate how these writers and works embody significant characteristics of these literary-historical periods.
. . . .

B. Literary Analysis and Interpretation

5.  Develop persuasive individual interpretations of literature from literary-historical periods of Modern Western literature based on close reading, using pertinent evidence from the literary texts.
6.  Apply knowledge of Modern Western literary history, cultures, genres, and authors, as well as different literary critical approaches, to individual and comparative analysis of literary texts.
7. Use effective oral and written communication to express literary analyses and interpretations, developed both independently and collaboratively.
8.  Avoid plagiarism by citing course and any outside primary and secondary sources using an acceptable academic documentation style [i.e. MLA].