ANT 100 Overview of Logistics: Fall Essay Assignment

ANT 100 Overview of Logistics: Fall Essay Assignment

 

Learning Outcomes

Ater completing the essay assignments, students will be able to:

1. Distinguish peer-reviewed journal articles from popular sources and select a peer-reviewed source to support an assigned essay topic.

 

2. Identify the various types of evidence used within anthropology, evaluate such evidence, and employ this evaluation to develop and defend a position on a given essay topic.

 

3. Understand and apply the steps of the writing process to create a well-structured essay, including being able to incorporate feedback from the advanced draft to revise the essay.

 

4. Write a university-level anthropology essay, including constructing a thesis statement and developing an argument to evaluate an assigned topic.

 

Evaluation and Due Dates

 

14%Fall Essay Assignment, consisting of two deliverables due in the fall semester:

 

Phase of Essay	Due Date¹	Evaluation	3
			Late Policy
Advanced Draft	November 13, 2016	4% ²	3% off per day to max. of
			seven days
Essay Revision	December 4, 2016	10%	3% off per day to max. of
			seven days

¹Assignments are due at 11:59 pm on date specified

 

²IMPORTANT NOTE: The advanced draft must be submitted in order to receive a grade on the revised essay.

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See the course policies for missed graded materials, posted on Black Board.

 

CONFIRMATION CODES

 

At the top of the first page of your fall and winter essays (both the advanced draft and the revised essays), you must include the codes generated when you pass the plagiarism quiz and complete the essay checklist. The plagiarism quiz and essay checklist are on the ANT 100 website. If you fail to do this then you will lose 25% of the final essay mark. This is not negotiable.

 

General Formatting

LENGTH

• 1,500 words maximum (or about 6 double-spaced pages) excluding the Reference List. Go by word count, not page count and do word counts as you write (most word processors do this.)

• Over 1,500 words may result in a 10% grade penalty.

REQUIRED PAGE ELEMENTS

• No title page

• Top of first page:List your name (given name, then family name), student number, title of the essay, the date you actually submit the paper, and your confirmation codes for the plagiarism quiz and essay checklist

• 12-point Times, Times New Roman or Arial typeface

• At least 2.5cm margins all around

• Duble-space throughout

• Number all pages

Submission of Essays

• Essays will be submitted through Turnitin.com. No emailed versions or paper copies will be accepted.

• Further details and instructions will be posted on Black Board

FILE FORMAT

• All essays will be submitted as a .doc or a .docx format. No exceptions.

 Draft Essay: Save as “lastname_firstname_DRAFT.DOC” or .DOCX

• Final Essay: Save as “lastname_firstname_FINAL.DOC” or .DOCX For Example: li_martha_DRAFT.doc

NO QUOTATIONS

The only exception is when you are commenting in your paper on an author’s wording of a text passage. In that case you may use a quote, but only with your TA’s prior approval. Each unauthorized use of a quotation will result in an automatic, non-negotiable deduction of 10% of your total essay mark. Worse yet, if you quote a passage without putting quotation marks around it then you will be charged with plagiarism, even if you follow the passage with a citation.

BE WARY OF PARAPHRASING

In many cases, paraphrasing is plagiarism,and should be carefully avoided. Never copy any part of a text into your paper, even if you then put your own words around or in the copied patch. This is called “disguised copying” and it is the most common type of plagiarism. It is no excuse if you follow your “disguised-copied” text with a reference to where you copied it from.