Citation method for web addresses:
URL; author or person or organization responsible for the web page; title (if one exists; otherwise use a header if one is given. The title is the text that will come up if you save the URL in your list of favorites, or in other places. It does not appear on the web page itself. You may view the title by viewing the source and finding the title tag); "Date Written and Last Updated"; date accessed (the date that you accessed the web site). Here is one link on how to cite Internet sources. You must have some idea of when your source was created or modified in order to use it. Do not use sources for which no date can be found (the date you accessed the material is required, but not sufficient). For example:<www.Slate.msn.com/> Plotz, David. "The Plagiarist: Why Stephen Ambrose is a Vampire." Slate Written 1/11/02. Accessed 2/3/04.
Citation for books:
Lederer, Richard and Richard Dowis. Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged. St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1991.
Citation for articles:
Johnson, Deborah G., "Do Engineers Have Social Responsibilities?" Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 9, no. 1 (1991), pp 20-26.
Your outline should be as detailed as possible. Your rough draft should fall out easily from your outline.
Begin your outline with a thesis statement: for example, People who live in Hampton Roads can reduce the destructive, life-threatening potential for themselves and their families by being well-prepared long before a hurricane is predicted to make landfall in their area. This preparation should include plans to deal with a failure of all means of electronic communication.
Similarly, your outline should end with a concluding paragraph. A thumbnail guideline: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. Your outline may contain clauses or sentences, but should be as detailed as possible so that the reader (you, your peers and me) will know exactly how each bullet will be expanded. In particular, labels with no verbs are not informative enough (e.g., "During the storm" is not as helpful as "Actions to take/avoid during the storm")
I. First main idea
A. First subdivision of the main idea
1. First reason or example
2. Second reason or example
a. First supporting detail
b. Second supporting detail
B. Second subdivision of the main idea
1. First reason or example
2. Second reason or example
a. First supporting detail
b. Second supporting detail
II. Second main idea
(and so on, following the sequences above)
Indent each of these subdivisions by the same number of spaces.
Use parallel structure in the levels. For example, in the hurricane situation, A. might be Listen to the weather radio for further updates as the storm approaches, while B. must follow the same structure: Shop as early as possible to lay in supplies before the stores are stripped clean. What you do not say is Listen to the radio and Shopping is the next step
Use a period at the end of your thesis statement and in your concluding paragraph.
I will grade the reaction sheets based on how complete they are,
how helpful they are, how well they answer the questions under each
heading and how well the ratings are supported.
When you turn in your outline and rough draft, make sure that you turn
in the peer comments about your paper.
You may keep them to help you improve the draft that you give to me,
but in order for your peers to get credit for their ranking, you must
turn them in to me (I will not use others' ratings
of your work in any way when
determining my own grade for your work. Turning in others' ratings
allows your peers to get credit for their reactions of your paper).
Rough Draft
You will turn in your rough draft
twice just as you do with
your outline.
First, turn in your first rough draft to your peers
(bring 3 copies to class
for peer review),
and to me in email
(as an attachment in email; I will only grade whether you turned this
in, not its content).
Finally, modify that draft based on peer review and turn it in to me
for comments.
Include
the outline
that I graded with the rough draft
with the final rough draft that you turn in to me.
You do not need to give a copy of that graded outline to your peers.
Your paper should be single spaced with spell and grammar checking turned on (that is the default in Microsoft Word). Your paper should have page numbers in the footer. When you turn in your printed rough draft and final draft, include a paper with the number of words stapled to the front (there is a word count function in Word. Use that one). Your rough draft should be in final form (it is rough because you will be given a chance to modify it to improve your grade for your final draft based on my comments on your rough draft).
Your paper must be your own work with no plagiarism with all ideas that
are not yours cited with a footnote.
Final Paper
You must turn in a final paper to me in email and in hardcopy.
It may be the same as the rough draft or modified significantly.
Your final paper should incorporate any comments that I have made
and any other improvements that you can make,
and should be in the
format specified above.
Attach a word count of your final draft on the hardcopy of your final
draft,
and
send me email with your final draft as a Microsoft Word attachment.
You should include your graded outline and
your graded rough draft when you turn in a hardcopy of your final
paper.
Both your final and draft will be grade using the final and rough draft criteria page modified 8/26/07 by Lynn Lambert This material may be used and modified in whole or in part as long the original author and URL are cited.