Guidelines for the submission of the: Complete Draft
Due date: see schedule *Late submissions incur a grade penalty.
Submission process All submissions are by email only to the instructor or GSI with whom you have been paired. The email should have TWO MSWord docs attached: the cover sheet and the paper itself. (While two documents is inconvenient, because there are also nondocument submissions, such as powerpoints, the cover sheet cannot be attached to the submission is all cases. Separate cover sheets allows us to track all submissions equally. Please do this.)
Please use the below phrase as the email subject line submission. Don't forget to change the generic LASTNAME_firstname to your name!: J7BDraft_LASTNAME_firstname Whether you are submitting a paper or project, please use the MSWord doc I have provided on the web site as your cover sheet. Please submit your coversheet as an MSWord doc using this file name. J7BDraft_LASTNAME_firstname_COVER Please submit your paper (or, when a project, relevant supporting comments when expected) as an MSWord doc using this file name. J7BDraft_LASTNAME_firstname
Instructions. 1. Using the MSWord document provided elsewhere (the doc used as the cover sheet), please answer its questions and submit attached to the same email as the final paper. Attach your paper. Paper formatting and content guidelines: 3a. Paper formatting: the PAPER does not need to follow any special formatting rules at this point, nor are spelling and grammar checked. HOWEVER, the bibliography must follow correct style. —The final paper will use MLA style rules and ask for parenthetical
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citation style, so you might want to keep this in mind. Parenthetical citation style is using footnotes for special comments only while usually identifying sources by citing inside the body of the paper (―parenthetical citation‖) as in this example: ―Murasaki joined a literary salon in the year 1006 (Mitsuda 178)‖. 3b. Paper Content: In addition to the cover sheet sent as a separate paper, the paper itself should have: —your name and paper title —a complete draft of the entire paper, with nearly all of the research completed, all of the major ideas presented, and nearly all other ideas included as well —concluding paragraph(s) … very important! —a complete bibliography ANNOTATED: use this title: ―Annotated Bibliography of Works Consulted‖ annotate each work in the list note how you used the work Example: McCormick, James P. "Japan: the Mask and the Mask-Like Face." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 15.2 (1956): 198-204. Abstract. Half of the article is devoted to the definition of face in Japanese society. The last half goes on to talk about masks in Noh plays. How I used it. I used the information in the first half of the article to create my thesis statement and write my introduction. The idea of “frankness” makes up the bulk of my research paper.
How will this stage of the writing be graded?
I will look at the title and abstract for informative clarity. I will look at your bibliography to check the quality of the resources found as well as the quality of how they are used. These items figure significantly in the Stage Three grade. I will also, of course, carefully consider paper content in all aspects except English style, formatting issues, and citation style – but the citations themselves need to be there. The emphasis is on the amount of work accomplished (research, matured thesis, idea discovery, and organization) relative to the amount of work left to do. ―Complete draft‖ is a key word; please remember that. (Therefore 200 hours of work on a paper would be incredible by any measure, but if the whole project looks like it will need to be a 2000 hour project to finish, then paper would score low despite that incredible about of work.) I expect there to be
suggestions for improvement in the case of some papers but the point is to be as close to finished as possible. Students regularly underestimate the amount of time it takes to wrap up the final details of a paper. I think, as a rule of thumb, this ―details‖ work can represent up to 30% of the total time of the project. Scoring How will this stage be graded? Timely submission 10% off overall grade for 0-24 hours late; 20% off for 24-48 hours late; 50% off for more than 2 days late. All calculations begin at 11PM. Following instructions: Followed them conscientiously? (submitted TWO documents, correct email submission line, correct file title, directly typing into the provided form unless MSWord is not available, fulfilling and staying within the requirements including answering all questions, etc.) Super. Got close? Might make a borderline case go low instead of high (a B+/A- ish submission gets the B+). Give the impression that the student didn’t pay attention to this? This can require a resubmission or have a very negative impact on the grade. At this point we need to keep on schedule, exchanging well formed ideas. Content This should be the paper with nearly all its research done, all of its major ideas on paper, most of its minor ideas on paper, and nearly all of the arguing of points finished. This stage is to share your ideas, not necessarily your writing style. No special style requirements. The paper is graded on process and progress at this stage—how far have you gone in research and thinking over your ideas and getting those ideas into a written form. (The final version of the paper continues to ask some of these questions but places more emphasis on the ideas themselves as well as issues of style.)
For the cover sheet I will be reading to see if the title, thesis and abstract all suggest the same paper and indicate that you have a clear idea of what you are doing. I will especially be looking for good titles. I will review our correspondence and see if you have fixed the various problems that we have discussed, if there have been such discussions.
I will look at your bibliography and ask if the citations there are the appropriate ones, and sufficient. I will be looking to see if the ideas of those citations are somehow a part of the paper. I have low regard for web-based information in many instances. There are exceptions to this, of course. Also, nearly all papers need secondary material. I will definitely be asking whether the paper appears complete in terms of research and inclusion of all ideas.