GEOL 106 2007 OUTLINE - Queen's University

Professor Hutchinson GEOLOGY 106 – Winter, 2007
Grading Scheme:
Assignments
Mid-term
Final
Assignments:
Grading Scheme
6 @ 4 marks each
20 marks
56 marks
Total
24
20
56
100
• Are due on Mondays. Late marks are calculated at a rate of 20% per day.
• Will be returned on the following Monday.
• Are based on “Hazard City”, which is accessed using your individual WebCT access code.
• Additional research is required for most of the assignments. IMPORTANT - Any information
found from sources other than your textbook must be fully referenced.
• There are 7 assignments for this course. The marks for your top 6 assignments will be used to
calculate your average grade. Your lowest mark will be discarded.
Reference style:
As recommended by the Queen’s University Library web site, please see:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html
Academic Integrity:
Regulation 12 details Academic Integrity. This can be found at:
http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/pg532.html
The most frequent issues encountered in previous years in this course are Plagiarism and
Facilitation, which are defined on the web site, as follows:
and
“Plagiarism (presenting another’s ideas or phrasings as one’s own without proper
acknowledgement)
Examples: copying and pasting from the internet, a printed source, or other resource without
proper acknowledgement; copying from another student; using direct quotations or large
sections of paraphrased material in an assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;
submitting the same piece of work in more than one course without the permission of the
instructor(s).”
“Facilitation (enabling another’s breach of academic integrity)
Examples: making information available to another student; knowingly allowing one’s essay
or assignment to be copied by someone else; buying or selling of term papers or assignments
and submitting them as one’s own for the purpose of plagiarism.”
Procedures as outlined in Regulation 12 will be followed, if academic dishonesty is suspected. If a finding of
Academic dishonesty is made, all students involved will receive a grade of 0 for the assignment in question,
at a minimum.
If you work together on an assignment, you must make sure that your write up is unique and
significantly different from each other.
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