Adam Shear’s Teaching Page

Web sites for current courses can be found at the Pitt Blackboard site:

http://courseweb.pitt.edu/?bbatt=Y

You will have to sign in, but most of my courses are open to guests.

Here are links to useful sites and to some of the policies I ask students to adhere to:

University of Pittsburgh Policies on Plagiarism:

http://www.wac.pitt.edu/printable/print_stu_integrity.htm

http://www.fcas.pitt.edu/academicintegrity.html

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: extremely useful:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/index.html

Guidelines for Independent Studies and Directed Research: my policies:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ashear/indepstudy.html

Writing Tips: some things to do; some things to avoid:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ashear/writingtips.html

Using Sources: the difference between primary and secondary sources; some reading tips:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ashear/usingsources.html

Finding material in the library:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ashear/libraryfinding.html