DUE DATES
For this assignment you have two
additional
deadlines. Your research topic is due Friday, September 30th and your
bibliography is due Monday, November 7th in class.
You must make two copies of your paper to give to your editors. Your draft is due (complete with endnotes and bibliography) in class on Wednesday, November 23, but due to the length of the papers and the need to check format of endnotes and bibliography, you will not do in class editing until Monday, November 28, at which time I expect you to have already edited the paper for format and content. You will spend class time going through each paper in more detail with the authors in your editing group. The final copy of the paper is due Friday, December 2, in class.
LENGTH AND OTHER SPECIFICATIONS
Your paper will be 7-10 pages in length,
typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins all around, no eatra space
between paragraphs, and 12pt font similar to that in this assignment
sheet
(Times New Roman 12pt or Courier 12pt). Your paper must be at least
SEVEN
FULL PAGES, NOT including bibliography and endnotes. Please number your
pages.
You must use 6 sources, including at least three books, and at least two articles from scholarly journals (Time and Newsweek do not count). We will go through the process of how to find these sources on Monday, Oct. 24 in the library from 7-9pm and in class.
If at all possible try to include at least one primary source. Primary sources include autobiographies, newspaper articles contemporary to the event (ie. a 1968 newspaper report on the Chicago convention), diaries, memoirs, letters, government or other official documents and reports, oral interviews, magazine articles from the 1960s, advertisements or posters of events from the 1960s, audiotapes of actual events, or film or videotape of actual events.
In total you must have at least six sources (one is your choice), and you must make adequate use of these sources in your paper.
Failure to meet length requirements or source requirements will result in a grade no higher than a D. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Since the paper is due on almost the last day of class there can be no second chances on this one, so peer editing is especially important.
ASSIGNMENT
You are to write a research paper on a
subject relating to Southeast Asia. Make an argument about the overall
significance
of your topic to some aspect of life in Southeast Asia. This paper will not
be as tightly structured as the short papers you have written this
semester,
but it will still require an overall thesis, an introduction, several
points,
topic sentences to introduce these points, details to support each
point,
and a conclusion to tie it all together. You probably will not have
miniconclusions
for every paragraph, but try to include them when appropriate. Your
paper
will probably be more of a ten point essay than a five point essay, and
your points may have sub points, but the procedure for outlining your
paper
is much the same. You still need to lead your reader through your paper
with analysis as well as fact.
CITATIONS
You must give credit for all information
you get from your sources, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. I
would
rather have too many cites than not enough. When in doubt, cite. I
would
like these citations in the form of endnotes, in other words, numbers
in
the text like this and then a separate page of notes at the end of your
paper listing all your cites. Your endnotes must follow the style we
discuss
in class and outlined in the Manual pages 116-164. You must
also
add a bibliography on a separate page listing your sources in proper
style
as outlined in pages 165-174 and in class. YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY AND
ENDNOTES
PAGES DO NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR SEVEN TO TEN PAGE LENGTH REQUIREMENTS.
Usually you put in a citation under the following circumstances:
1) A direct quote. If you use a direct quote you must put a citation immediately at the end of the sentence in which you finish the quote.
2) A table, map, or graph. I do not expect you to have these in this paper, but you must give a cite at the end of the title of your visual representation, saying where you got the data, or the image from.
3) When you have finished giving a piece of information from one source and the next piece of information comes from another source. Sometimes you find the same information in two sources, in which case you can cite both sources, separated by a semicolon, but usually citations do not list more than one source. It is also possible that you have compiled information from two sources in such a way that you cannot separate them in your sentence. In this case it is also acceptable to list two sources in your citation, separated by a semicolon, but this situation is not usual. Put in the citation when you have finished giving the information, and before you either move on to the next source or give your own analysis.
WHEN DO I USE A QUOTE? GUIDELINES
FOR
QUOTING FROM THE BOOKS
Paraphrase (put in your own words) as
much as possible. You should only quote Southeast Asian personalities themselves,
or a particular passage from the book that you cannot put into your own
words. There is no need to quote descriptions of people, places, or
events,
you can describe these things in your own words. In short, your paper
should
not be a cut and paste job from the sources themselves.
If you have a direct quote, you must put it in quotation marks if it appears in the regular body of your paper. If your quote is longer than five lines (and I hope you will not have too many of these), you must indent five spaces on either side and single space the quote. In this case you need not put quotation marks around the quote, the indentation and single spacing indicate that you are quoting directly.
LANGUAGE AND TONE
Avoid the use of contractions (don't,
wouldn't, wasn't), slang or jargon, and the use of "I" or "the author
of
this paper." State your ideas as facts you are trying to prove rather
than
"I thinks." in other words, instead of saying "In my opinion the space
program was the single most important reason for the success of Star
Trek," say "The space program was the single most important reason
for the success of Star Trek," and then prove it with your
facts
and analysis.
Do not use passive voice, avoid wordy sentences, make sure your sentences sound natural when spoken aloud.
Divide your essay into paragraphs of roughly equal lengths, with each paragraph discussing separate topics. Avoid using words you do not understand. Write simply and clearly in your own words as if you were explaining the readings to someone out loud. Do not try to sound like someone else, or spend hours agonizing over sentences. You can always go back and fix them later. Writing should not be a chore. If you have planned properly, and prepared a detailed outline, writing should just be a matter of filling in the blanks, getting from one point to the next.
Believe it or not, if this assignment sheet were double spaced, it would come in at just under 5 full pages, and it only took me an hour to write. (Yes it's getting late while I write this!)