Remember your info literacy paper - I originally made it due Apr 30 by mistake - so you can turn it in at the final exam or sooner (Final Exam Thur May 1 at 10:40am). I need a "softcopy" and "hard copy". Please turn in disk and printout and associated materials (i.e. copy of first page of sources and source evaluation)

I am going to use turnitin.com to check originality. Please, honest students, do not take this top mean that I do not trust you. Take it to mean that your hard work will be valued because people who copy others work will be caught. I will need to submit papers to the www site from your disks unless you submit. To save me work, I would like you to submit. As an incentive, I am offering an extra 10% of your paper grade if you successfully submit your paper to turnitin.com (i.e. you could get 110 / 100). I will still want your disk, in case there is a problem at the site.

The site is www.turnitin.com. Instructions can be found at www.turnitin.com/usage/student_quickstart.html.

The class ID is: 1069877 and the password is: redmond

Dr Redmond

P.S. As a reminder about the paper requirements (also available at my www site):

CS 152 Spring 2003       Paper Assignment – Making Use of Information Literacy   

Purpose: To practice applying information literacy to a task. You will search for, evaluate, and use information from various sources to create something new – in this case a paper.

Assigned: 02/11/2003

Due: 04/30/2003 at the start of class.  (the only class times that will be available to work on this will be in Feb – 2 or 3 days)

Preliminary Hand In:  On 3/28, hand in what you have then for initial review. This might include some of the following: sources and explanations; outline; introduction; partial text …

Course Significance:

            10% of course grade.

Assignment:

Write a 3-5 page paper on one of the topics listed below. Use at least 5 sources, at least 1 of which must be available via “traditional” media (journals, books) and at least one of which must be an on-line source. Append after the paper a short explanation of why each source you used was appropriate for your research, include a copy/print of the first page of each source.

Your paper should be coherently written. While I am primarily interested in the ideas, and the sources, the presentation of the ideas should not distract from reading. Sentences that do not follow from one another, major grammatical errors, spelling mistakes etc could distract from the ideas being presented.

Format should be fairly normal – font 10-12 pt, margins 1.0-1.25 inches, single space, …

We will be using turnitin.com to fight plagiarism. You may not duplicate even a sentence from other sources.