Seminar #1 Responses
DUE:  Mon. 4/14 
(No Televised Meeting on Mon., April 14)

1.  Read all the webposted Seminar #1 Reports after the report posting deadline (Sun., April 13).  Choose 2 or 3 Reports that interest you as stimuli for your Seminar #1 Response.  Or you may respond to several Reports on a particular Topic of interest to you. 
2.  Webpost your Seminar #1 Response/s to at least other students' posted Seminar #1 Reports  to the
Seminar #1 online discussion forum:
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/sem1_frm.htm

What should you write in your Seminar #1 Response/s?  First of all, there are no "right" or "wrong" responses.   There are only your honest and thoughtful responses--personal and/or analytical--to others' Reports and topics, and what they and you have made of ENG 103 readings & learning experiences so far.  In your "Response," I invite you to offer open-ended, earnest inquiries and productive reactions to two or more Reports, or specific points and questions raised in two or more Reports that elicit strong responses from you, that provoke your curiosity and interest, and/or that in some (other) way provoke your comment and further discussion.   

Whichever Reports or topics you address and reactions you describe in your Response, I would like you to try to specify what you are reacting to, and explain how and/or why you are reacting as you are.  [The Reply option embedded in online display of student reports allows you to engaged in a "threaded" discussion, by the way.]

3.  Read all other students' posted Seminar #1 Responses after the posting deadline (Mon., April 14) but before TV class on Wed., April 16.  Next TV Meeting:  Wed., April 16.

WEB POSTING to Seminar #1 Discussion Forum

When you are ready to post your Discussion #1 Report and/or Response, follow the Posting Directions given at the online Seminar #1 Discussion Forum: 
URL:  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/sem1_frm.htm

Questions or Problems?  Please contact Cora:
cagatucci@cocc.edu

To get an idea how online Discussion Forums work, please visit one of the following Hum 211 Discussion Forums from Winter 2002: 

	HUM 211 Discussion #1 Forum: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc1_frm.htm
	HUM 211 Discussion #2 Forum: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm
	HUM 211 Discussion #3 Forum: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc3_frm.htm
	HUM 211 Discussion #5 Forum: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc5_frm.htm

Citation Guidelines

Avoid Plagiarism: Cite Your Sources!  When you cite a literary work . . .

·         Make clear which author and work you are citing: e.g. use author tags (According to Blake,...), and, if needed, identify which literary work or which part of a literary work is being cited (In her Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft asserts that...). It is permissible to shorten references to very long titles as long as it is still clear to your readers which work you are citing (Equiano gives this reason for writing his Narrative: . . .).

·         Exact quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks; use ellipses . . . if you leave out part of a sentence; put brackets [ ] around anything you add or change within a quoted passage.

·         Both quotations and paraphrases of specific passages from a literary work should be followed by page numbers in our textbook given inside parenthesis, like this: (Longman 1393).

·         Line breaks for quoted lines of poetry should be indicated by a slash / like this:
"The Lamb" in Songs of Innocence opens with a child's question: "Little Lamb who made thee/Dost thou know who made thee" (ll. 1-2, Longman 1394).

·         If you cite a source other than our textbook, identify that source as well.  For Example:

Catherine Ancholou, a Nigerian scholar, explains that Equiano's slave narrative must be studied "to connect, to not forget, to remember, and to take responsibility for the actions of our forefathers”  (“Olaudah Equiano” online reserve article).

Support your main points or definitions clearly and persuasively with literary citations

·         Select relevant literary "evidence" that best supports your points, and cite (quote and/or paraphrase) only as much as is needed and relevant to help you make your points.

·         Interpret or explicate (explain) your literary citations. In general, all quotations and paraphrases should be accompanied by your explanations of how/why the cited passage relates to and supports your point. Don't assume a quoted passage will speak for itself, for no two readers will necessarily interpret and understand a passage in exactly the same way you do. You may need to single out and explicate specific words or phrases within your literary citations to clarify how you are interpreting them and/or why they are relevant or important to your point.