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From: [e-mail] (Tom Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: wanted: handout on basics of scholarly writing
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Date: 31 Aug 92 21:24:50 GMT
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I teach in a Computer Science and Engineering department, and in the
last few terms I have become more and more aware of how many of our
students do not know the basics of quotations, citations, plagiarism
and using reference lists in scholarly writing.  (This is especially
true of our graduate students who come to us with technical degrees
from other countries, such as India or China.)

I started to write a short handout on this topic (say, two pages or
so?) based on Mary-Claire van Leunen's book *A Handbook for Scholars*
(my favorite reference on this), but it occurred to me that perhaps
someone else out there already has such a document that they'd be
willing to let me adapt.  (Or even plagiarize!).  Again, my students
are not humanities majors, so I really do need something that might
seem pretty basic to a humanities scholar or a composition teacher.

Let me know if you have something I can have.  Thanks!
Tom

PS I'm really not trying to start a discussion on why students in
science or engineering ought to take more writing courses.  I'd tend
to agree.  Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that this will change
here, especially for our students at the graduate level.
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Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431  USA        Phone:  [phone]   FAX: [phone]
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