Comments on: Citing sources and avoiding plagiarism

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:18:03 +0000

I was watching the Today show the other day and there was a segment on Maria Shriver’s new book “A Woman’s Nation”. I thought it might be a relevant subject to discuss in class since it concerns the changing sex roles between men and women when it comes to raising a family, earning money, etc. I don’t have a twitter account, so just thought I would leave a comment here about it.

By: Lance Gravlee

Lance Gravlee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:58 +0000

@Sarah: You should cite the popular article, in addition to your scholarly references.

By: Sarah Sullivan

Sarah Sullivan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:15 +0000

I have a question about the actual paper topic. I know we are supposed to base our paper on one of the popular articles, but are we supposed to reference that atricle in our paper or just give information from the scholarly journal?

By: Lance Gravlee

Lance Gravlee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:55:00 +0000

@Christy: The paper should be 8–10 pages. In past semesters it was longer, and there were a few places where the materials we distributed (e.g., rubric) had not been updated. I apologize for the confusion.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:53:04 +0000

I looked on the syllabus and it said the paper had to be 8-10 pages, but when I went to print out the rubric, it stated that the paper had to be 10-12 pages. I already wrote a full nine pages but I don’t want to be penalized for not writing enough. What is the correct number of pages necessary? -Thank you

By: Lance Gravlee

Lance Gravlee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:26:58 +0000

@Jordan: The list of topics for the research paper is available in this document, which is linked from the syllabus. Also, because I inadvertently left the list from last year online, we will accept without penalty research papers written about a topic from last year's list. I apologize for the confusion.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:36:30 +0000

i cannot find a list of acceptable topics for this semester. i only found one from last year