I have reviewed the Term Paper Outlines submitted by last week’s deadline. Most of you have been moving along nicely with the work related to the Term Paper and have accumulated a fair proportion of the points available at each stage.
I will return your graded Outlines on Tuesday, April 15. Corrected Outlines may be turned in April 22 (Optional) to recuperate some of the points that may have been deducted. Outline Corrections will not be accepted after the end of the class period on April 22.
It’s time for the last push towards the Term Paper Final Draft. We’ll be discussing some important issues related to your Term Paper in class on Tuesday, April 15.
I am putting some of these observations in writing here for your reference.
Copies of graded Annotated Bibliographies and Term Paper Outlines MUST be submitted along with the Final Draft of your Term Paper.
The Final Draft of your Term Paper should be Titled and should include a complete List of References at the end. References should be in the proper format. Article titles in quotation marks, titles of books, magazines, and journals underlined or italicized, etc. (See Term Paper Guidelines. See: http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf http://www.asanet.org/students/Quick%20Style%20guide.pdf The Final Draft of your Term Paper should address any comments, corrections, or suggestions I made on your submitted Topics, Annotated Bibliographies, Outlines, etc.
The Final Draft of your Term Paper should follow the accepted/corrected Term paper Outline
The Final Draft of your Term Paper should include discussion of Sociological Perspectives and Theories relevant to your topic. THIS IS NOT AN OPTION. I have made suggestions in your Outlines as to where your discussion of theories and perspectives might be included in your Term Paper.
Explain why your topic is a social problem. (consider discrepancies between stated societal values and
References: should include a minimum of 8 sources, but would ideally include 8 sources times the number of group members and/or sections in your paper. This information is posted as “Final Draft Pointers 04.14.14” in the Term Paper Folder on Blackboard. Be ready to discuss on Tuesday, April 15, any questions related to this that you may have.