Instructions for the final paper
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Here are the guidelines for what I expect of your final paper. If you have questions (about your topic or the way you're writing about it etc.), you can always run them by me via email.
1. Your final paper has to be about a topic that is related to themes we have worked with in the course.
2. For this paper, you are expected to include knowledge you have gained from the readings and assignments during the course as well as additional outside research on your topic. Your paper should refer to at least 10 different sources (materials from in class as well as out of class). These sources can be books, articles, blog posts, whatever. Referring to 10 different sources for a good paper means you have read many more. Only the best and most relevant of the sources you have researched actually make it into your paper.
3. When you reference material, please mark it in the text, for example, "Chamayou states that such and such (Chamayou, p. 56), while Lindquist says almost the same blablaba (Lindquist, p. 78)." At the end of your paper, please have a bibliography where you list all the materials you have used. Basically, an alphabetical list of books, articles, etc. that you refer to in your paper.
4. The task here is to write a coherent presentation, exploration/analysis and critical discussion of a topic. You will be graded on your ability to critically analyze rather than summarize your findings. Please make it clear in your text when you are paraphrasing ideas you have from other sources and when you are stating your own thoughts and conclusions. And make sure that your paper includes both: make sure your paper has parts where you are distilling the material you have researched and presenting it coherently to your reader, as well as parts where you share your own thoughts, opinions and conclusions on your topic. This is your research paper, meaning you have set out to figure something out or learn more about something. The paper is you showing your reader what you've done and what you have learned.
5. Make sure to proof-read your paper (no typos please), make sure all your sentences make grammatical sense. Put in page numbers, make it look neat. Be careful not to write like you speak (no slang and try to have shorter, concise sentences rather than long, complicated sentences).
6. Your final paper should be between 2000 and 2500 words.
7. The final paper is due Wednesday, August 12 at midnight. Please email it to gitte[ø]hawaii.edu in a word document (doc. Or docx).
1. Your final paper has to be about a topic that is related to themes we have worked with in the course.
2. For this paper, you are expected to include knowledge you have gained from the readings and assignments during the course as well as additional outside research on your topic. Your paper should refer to at least 10 different sources (materials from in class as well as out of class). These sources can be books, articles, blog posts, whatever. Referring to 10 different sources for a good paper means you have read many more. Only the best and most relevant of the sources you have researched actually make it into your paper.
3. When you reference material, please mark it in the text, for example, "Chamayou states that such and such (Chamayou, p. 56), while Lindquist says almost the same blablaba (Lindquist, p. 78)." At the end of your paper, please have a bibliography where you list all the materials you have used. Basically, an alphabetical list of books, articles, etc. that you refer to in your paper.
4. The task here is to write a coherent presentation, exploration/analysis and critical discussion of a topic. You will be graded on your ability to critically analyze rather than summarize your findings. Please make it clear in your text when you are paraphrasing ideas you have from other sources and when you are stating your own thoughts and conclusions. And make sure that your paper includes both: make sure your paper has parts where you are distilling the material you have researched and presenting it coherently to your reader, as well as parts where you share your own thoughts, opinions and conclusions on your topic. This is your research paper, meaning you have set out to figure something out or learn more about something. The paper is you showing your reader what you've done and what you have learned.
5. Make sure to proof-read your paper (no typos please), make sure all your sentences make grammatical sense. Put in page numbers, make it look neat. Be careful not to write like you speak (no slang and try to have shorter, concise sentences rather than long, complicated sentences).
6. Your final paper should be between 2000 and 2500 words.
7. The final paper is due Wednesday, August 12 at midnight. Please email it to gitte[ø]hawaii.edu in a word document (doc. Or docx).