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Andersson EN103 Fall 2010

RESEARCH PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Use the below as a checklist.

Remember: If you do not turn in your research paper (and no late papers are accepted), you
automatically fail the class.

_______ 6-10 typed pages, excluding Works Cited page;

_______ Minimum of five sources

_______ 1 of these sources must NOT be from the Internet source. Sources include not just books,
magazines, and journals, but also personal interviews, music, films, TV shows, radio shows, play,
publics readings, articles in a PDF file, personally conducted field reports or surveys, electronic
and video games, and e-books.

_______ All sources must come from our library (including interlibrary loan) unless I have okayed
it in writing !

_______ NO Wikis, about.com, etc.

_______ If you use a source such as FreeEssays, 123Essays, etc., paper mills, in other words, you’ll
fail the paper and there’s a good chance you will fail the class. Aside from these papers being
written by students such as yourself and thus do not constitute reliable sources, you’re
participating in plagiarism.

_______ You must the MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation/citation style

When you turn in your research paper, you must:

(The points in parenthesis indicate how many points you will lose.)

_______ Place everything in a folder (20 points)

_______ Include copies of all research material used in your paper. This includes all quotations,
paraphrases, and summaries. Obviously, if you’ve interviewed someone, I don’t expect you to
turn in the person, but I do expect you to turn in your notes or recording. (200 points—which means
you get a zero)

_______ Highlight or underline or circle all material in your sources that you used in your research
paper. This means all quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. Whatever method you use
MUST be different from any underlining, highlighting, etc. you did for your own notes. (100
points—which means you would automatically fail the RP if you do not do this)

_______ Include all deadline assignments for the research paper. (Remember these deadlines are
5% of your final grade.) This includes
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_______ Working thesis

_______ Proposal

_______ Annotated bibliography 1

_______ Annotated bibliography 2 and outline

_______ ALL drafts, scribbles, notes, prewriting, anything associated with your research paper,
regardless of the condition it is in.

For those of you who compose on the computer, save each draft/revision; don’t simply hit “save,” which
writes over the original version. Use “save as” and retitle it, something as simple as “DeathPenalty,”
“DeathPenalty.1,” “DeathPenalty.2,” etc. You don’t have to print all these out, but you do have to turn the
drafts and revisions in on either a disc or a CD-ROM.

RESEARCH PAPER DEADLINES

September 21 Working thesis due

Library Tour

September 30 Proposal due

October 5 Annotated bibliography 1

Point of No Return

October 19 Library Day

November 16 Annotated bib 2

Outline due

November 30 RESEARCH PAPERS DUE!!!!!!!

NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED