My literature students are supposed to keep reading journals for each class meeting's reading. They can then use their journal in their exams. I tell they that they can record anything related to what they're reading: take notes, write summaries, brainstorm reactions, ask questions -- anything that's related to what they had read for the class meeting.
Here's one student's entry for Harriet Jacobs, who wrote the autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
"In 1874, Virginia Jacobs wrote a book entitled Miami. Which told a story of a writer, representing English literary history, who was born male during the Renaissance and started life as an Elizabethan, but turned into a women in the second half of the seventeenth century. Her protagonist's sex change dramatizes a major event in the history of English letters, namely the entrance of women into the literary marketplace. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the printing press, invested in the fifteenth century, led to an expansion of literacy as well as a reconceptualization of the role of the author."
I'm not sure where he copied this information from, but some of it is about Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. And some of it seems to be copied from a history of the book. And I have NO idea what the "book entitled Miami" might be!
This student has already failed the class because he copied from the internet for his midterm take-home exam. And he's going to St. Thomas in the fall. Sad.
Here's one student's entry for Harriet Jacobs, who wrote the autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
"In 1874, Virginia Jacobs wrote a book entitled Miami. Which told a story of a writer, representing English literary history, who was born male during the Renaissance and started life as an Elizabethan, but turned into a women in the second half of the seventeenth century. Her protagonist's sex change dramatizes a major event in the history of English letters, namely the entrance of women into the literary marketplace. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the printing press, invested in the fifteenth century, led to an expansion of literacy as well as a reconceptualization of the role of the author."
I'm not sure where he copied this information from, but some of it is about Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. And some of it seems to be copied from a history of the book. And I have NO idea what the "book entitled Miami" might be!
This student has already failed the class because he copied from the internet for his midterm take-home exam. And he's going to St. Thomas in the fall. Sad.
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