Malaysian Studies

MPW 1133TNR48
MALAYSIAN STUDIESTNR36

1. TITLE TNR36

SAM 14 CLASS: X5 TNR36

Lecturer:

MR.WILLIAM

TNR24

SESSION: JANUARY 2007

Group Members (TNR14B)

Name Class ID

Saravanan K (L) P2 02***********
Bee Suan Lee P2 09***********
Farah Kadir P2 *************
Kogila a/p Ramasamy P2 *************

Note: The font size should be 14TNR. The group leader’s name should be on the first line and the other members’ name should be listed alphabetically – right after the leader’s name.

BASIC GUIDELINES FOR A PROJECT PAPER

This is a group project and should reflect the group’s effort. The project is worth 20% of the total evaluation of the course.

CONTENT

The written work should be in an essay form. It should begin with the INTRODUCTION and followed by the discussion on the topic selected (with appropriate subtopics – wherever appropriate) and end with the CONCLUSION. The conclusion part should summarize the main ideas mentioned in the essay. The font size for the essay is TNR12.

The essay should be at the length of 15 to 25 pages.

FORMAT

• Cover page and list of members’ names The cover page and the member’s names should be presented using the standard layout given by this guideline.

• Pagination The page number should appear on the bottom right corner of the page and the introduction should be the first page.

• Alignment and spacing between lines All the pages have to be justified and double-spaced.

• Table of Content The Table of Content should have the page of all the main topics and subtopics.

• References The reference should not be less than 5 sources. It should bear the list of sources where materials for this assignment are gathered. The sources may be from books, journals, Internet websites, newspaper’s articles and interviews.

• Illustration Photos, charts, graphs and maps may be included if applicable.

• Binding The project has to be comb bound with plastic covering for the front page.

Table of Contents (TNR20)

Content (TNR16) Page (TNR16)

1. Introduction (TNR16) 1
2. The Legend of Pulau Langkawi 2
3. The Legend of Mahsuri 5
4. The Origin of the Name “Pekan Kuah” 8
5. The Secret of Pulau Dayang Bunting 14
6. Conclusion 19
7. References
8. Appendixes

Note: You may alter this page accordingly to suit your information.

FOOTNOTES

Footnotes are used to identify as precisely as possible the book or work a cited excerpt is taken from. You must include footnotes in your essay. If you use four words or more, consecutively, from an external source (book, website, etc.), you have to identify them with quotation marks following by the footnote 's number. Moreover, you should also use footnotes to identify sources from which you have borrowed key ideas and facts.
How to write footnotes
For a book: Author 's first name then family name, book title (underlined or in italics), place of publication, publisher, collection and number (when applicable), year of publication, page number.
Example:
1 Cathie Draine and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock! Indonesia, Singapore: Times Edition, 1986, p. 22.
In the case of an anthology: Author 's first name and family name, article or chapter title (between quotation marks " "), editor 's first name and family name, book title (underlined or in italics), place of publication, publisher (or group responsible for the publishing), collection and number (when applicable), year of publication, page number.
Example:
2 Christine Veilleux, "The State of Vietnam 's Forests: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Dilemma," in Rodolphe De Koninck (Editor), The Challenge of the Forest in Southeast Asia, Quebec City: GÉRAC - Université Laval, Documents du GÉRAC No. 7, 1994, p. 69.
For an article: Author 's first name and family name, article title (between quotation marks " "), periodical — magazine, newspaper, etc. — (underlined or in italics), volume and number (when available, not necessary for newspapers), publication date, page number.
Examples:
3 Jae Hoon Shim, "Summit Lifeline: A Landmark North-South Meeting is Planned as the North Seeks Help for its Sinking Economy," Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 163, No. 16, 20 April 2000, p. 44.
4 Associated Press,”Defanged Tigers Caused Own Crisis: Greenspan," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1997, section E, p. 2.

For textual footnotes: How to add a textual footnote (explaining something in the text):

19 Detailed evidence of the great increase in the array of goods and services bought as income increases is shown in S. J. Prais and H. S. Houthaker, The Analysis of Family Budgets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955, table 5, p. 52.

20 Professor D. T. Suzuki brings this out with great clarity in his discussion of "Stopping" and "no-mindedness"; see, e.g., his chapter entitled "Swordsmanship" in Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Society, 1938, p.30.
For a website: Organization title, author 's first name and family name (if known), page title (underlined or in italics), page URL, page 's creation date (if known) or date of access.
Examples:
5 China Daily, Qihua Hu, Isle Leader Told to Embrace Principle of One China, URL: http://www.chinadaily.net/cndy/history/2000/05/d1-tw.509.html, accessed 9 May 2000. 6 UNEP, State of the Environment, China '97 - Biodiversity - State, URL: http://svr1-pek.unep.net/soechina/biod/biods.htm, updated 24 August 1998.
Examples of well-written footnotes:
1.
(...) There is no doubt that karate-do, meaning the way of karate, is very strongly part of the Japanese culture. It is known all around the world as their way of life. Gichin Funagoshi, who introduced the great art to Japan, will forever be remembered as the founder of modern karate and the father of Japanese Karate. Every dojo practicing the art of Funagoshi today starts and ends its training by bowing to a posted picture of the great master with respect to his achievements. Funagoshi frequently said: "Karate is an unfinished art; it would continue to grow and change as a man 's knowledge and circumstances grow and changes".1
FOOTNOTE
(All footnotes should be in TNR10.)
1. MAWN.NET, "The History of Karate," http://www.mawn.net/his_shotokan.htm, accessed 8 January 2004.
2.
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS Most of Malaysia 's basic land transportation system (road and rail) was established while Malaysia was under control of the British Empire. It has 1,798 kilometers of railways (all narrow gauge) and 94,500 kilometers of highways (about three quarters of them paved). The more modernised part of the road system is located in Peninsular Malaysia, while on the island of Borneo, a main road runs along the coast with "a few good interior roads."6 The country also has an important pipeline system: 1,307 kilometers of crude oil pipelines and 379 kilometers of natural gas pipelines7 to keep up with the large amounts extracted primarily offshore in the fossil-fuel rich South China Sea. In terms of air transport, Malaysia Airlines provides domestic and international air service while two other national carriers operate regionally. Malaysia has 115 airports overall including 32 with paved runways. A new high-tech international airport opened in 1998 south of Kuala Lumpur at Sepang8 and its two runways can accommodate 90 to 100 flights per hour without any payload restrictions. Major seaports in Malaysia include Labuan (serving Sabah), Kuching (Sarawak), George Town in the north of Peninsular Malaysia near Thailand, and Melaka. But the most important seaport of the country is Port Kelang, serving Kuala Lumpur. It maintains trade with over one hundred ports around the world, can accommodate "container ships of up to 60,000 displacement tonnes" and is one of Asia 's leading ports.9

FOOTNOTES
6. "Malaysia," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 1999, Microsoft Corporation, 1998.
7. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Fact Book 1999 - Malaysia, URL: http://www.ocdi.gov/cia/publications/factbook/my.html, accessed 4 June 2003.
8. Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur International Airport Official Website, URL: http://www.klia.com.my/klia, accessed 9 July 2003.
9. KCT Systems Department, Klang Container Terminal Homepage, URL: http://www.kct.com.my, last updated 24 May 1999.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A bibliography is a list of works cited, which appears at the end of your paper. You should list all the sources you consulted to get ideas; do not list sources you looked at but did not use. The bibliography should include not less than 5 references in alphabetical order (encyclopedia, books and periodicals) among which at least two monographic publications and the rest from other resources. A good research is based on diversify and reliable documentary sources. You should be careful in choosing websites so as to avoid personal pages and those containing erroneous facts. No bibliographic reference writing method is better than another, but you have been asked to please use the following method to ensure a certain uniformity in the format and to make finding all the important information — author 's name, book, article or web site title, periodical 's name and number (when applicable), publication (or website access) date, and page (or URL) — easier.

How to write bibliographic references?
For a book: author 's family name and first name separated by a comma (if there is a second author, write his/her first name then family name), book title (underlined or in italics), place of publication, publisher, collection and number (when applicable), year of publication.
Example:
Draine, Cathie, and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock! Indonesia, Singapore: Times Edition, 1986.
In the case of an anthology: Author 's family name and first name (see above in case there is more than one author), article or chapter title (between quotation marks " "), editor 's first name and family name (see above in case there is more than one editor), book title (underlined or in italics), place of publication, publisher (or group responsible for the publishing), collection and number (when applicable), year of publication.
Example:
Veilleux, Christine, "The State of Vietnam 's Forests: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Dilemma," in Rodolphe De Koninck (Editor), The Challenge of the Forest in Southeast Asia, Quebec City: GÉRAC - Université Laval, Documents du GÉRAC No. 7, 1994.
For an article: Author 's family name and first name, article title (between quotation marks " "), periodical — magazine, newspaper, etc. — (underlined or in italics), volume and number (when available, not necessary for newspapers), publication date.
Examples:
Shim, Jae Hoon, "Summit Lifeline: A Landmark North-South Meeting is Planned as the North Seeks Help for its Sinking Economy," Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 163, No. 16, 20 April 2000.
Associated Press, "Defanged Tigers Caused Own Crisis: Greenspan," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1997, section E.
For a website: Organization title, author 's first name and family name (if known), page title (underlined or in italics), page 's URL, page 's creation date (if known) or date of access.

Examples:
China Daily, Qihua Hu, Isle Leader Told to Embrace Principle of One China, URL: http://www.chinadaily.net/cndy/history/2000/05/d1-tw.509.html, accessed 9 May 2000.
UNEP, State of the Environment, China '97 - Biodiversity - State, URL: http://svr1-pek.unep.net/soechina/biod/biods.htm, updated 24 August 1998.
Example of a well-written bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(All references should be in TNR12 and in alphabetical order.)

1. Associated Press, "Defanged Tigers Caused Own Crisis: Greenspan," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1997, section E. 2. Brunei," Cities of the World Volume 4: Asia, the Pacific, and the Asiatic Middle East”, Detroit: Gale, 1999. 3. China Daily, Qihua Hu, Isle Leader Told to Embrace Principle of One China, URL: http://www.chinadaily.net/cndy/history/2000/05/d1-tw.509.html, accessed 9 May 2000. 4. Draine, Cathie, and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock! Indonesia, Singapore, Times Edition, 1986. 5. Lemco, Jonathan, and Scott B. Macdonald, "Is the Asian Financial Crisis Over?" Current History, Vol. 98, No. 632, December 1999. 6. Shaw, Brian, "Bhutan," in Brian Jeffries (Editor), All-Asia Guide, 14th Edition, Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review, 1986. 7. Shim Jae Hoon, "Summit Lifeline: A Landmark North-South Meeting is Planned as the North Seeks Help for its Sinking Economy," Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 163, No. 16, 20 April 2000. 8. The World Bank, The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, A World Bank Policy Research Report, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. 9. UNEP, State of the Environment, China '97 - Biodiversity - State, URL: http://svr1-pek.unep.net/soechina/biod/biods.htm, updated 24 August 1998.
Note: Please refer to the lecturer for any assistance.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of using the idea or words of another person as your own. It is considered stealing. No credit can be given for work which is not your own. Acknowledge all sources of ideas and expressions, even if you have used your own words. Borrowing, whether in the form of a direct quotation or paraphrase, must be indicated using footnotes or in-text citations.

Plagiarism may take several forms:

a) Failure to cite sources properly may be considered plagiarism. This could include quotations, ideas, and wording used from another source but not acknowledged.

b) Borrowed, purchased, and/or ghostwritten papers are considered plagiarism, as is submitting one’s own work for more than one course without the permission of the instructor(s) involved.

Plagiarism is a serious academic offence. A plagiarized paper will automatically be failed.

References: Example: 1 Cathie Draine and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock! Indonesia, Singapore: Times Edition, 1986, p 6. "Malaysia," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 1999, Microsoft Corporation, 1998. Example: Draine, Cathie, and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock! Indonesia, Singapore: Times Edition, 1986.