Core Texts Spring, 2009
Mary Pat Fisher. Living Religions, seventh edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008
Mary Pat Fisher and Lee W. Bailey. An Anthology of Living Religions. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008
Fisher Texts Companion Website
Nadine Gordimer. July's People. New York: Penguin, 1981
Gillian Slovo. Red Dust. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000
Reading Assignments, Procedures, Techniques
IMPORTANT NOTES APPLYING TO WORK SUBMITTED IN THE COURSE:
1. Review the material on "Academic Integrity" in the School Handbook, especially the paragraph on "Plagiarism." Documentation (footnoting - click here to review how to construct footnotes ) is your most effective safeguard against charges of plagiarism. Train yourself never to cut and paste material from computer files, with the exception of the occasional direct quotation (which should always be surrounded by quotation marks and footnoted). Material you take from other sources and paraphrase (render in your own words) must also be footnoted. A good benchmark to use is to insert a footnote after every quotation and insert at least one footnote per paragraph.
2. Use only web material from universities, published journals, and other sources that have undergone rigorous editing or peer review and that are widely recognized in academic circles for quality scholarship and authority. You may not use Wikipedia as a cited source in any papers submitted in this course (more on this in class). A final reason to be careful about documentation (footnoting and bibliography) is that it authenticates your evidence and lends authority to your paper: i.e. it proves that you did not just make up your evidence; you got it from expert sources. The more expert those sources are, the more authority, weight, and persuasiveness your own paper will carry.
Resources
| Search NMH Library | Religions of the World Websites |
| Google News | Search Columbia Encyclopedia |
| World Religions Statistics | Research Guides |
| Quran Search Link | Roget's Thesaurus |
| Bible Search Link | World Factbook (CIA) |
| Arts and Letters Daily (a stimulating daily digest of articles including links to scores of newspapers and journals) | Topics in World History Course |
| Purdue Writing Lab and Hamilton College's Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Writing |
email: ted_thornton@nmhschool.org |