Monday, April 11, 2011

Fellow Student Peer Review and Grading Particulars

1) The paper needs to be six pages long (not counting works cited or bibliography), double-spaced using 12 point Times-New Roman font and have either 0.5" or 1.0" spaced margins.

2) The paper needs at least 6 different sources. Of these six sources at least 3 sources need to be primary sources, meaning something obtained from an archive or similar repository.

3) The paper must have at least four different types of sources, an example: your paper may use a book, scholarly journal, oral history, and historic photograph.

4) This paper should demonstrate what we have learned as a class over the duration of the semester. In this paper, be sure to use sound rhetorical principles in the paper: be sure to identify your audience; make a strong, but balanced and supported argument, if you write with bias be sure to make that bias transparent; and include the three rhetoreers (ethos, logos, and pathos) in your writing.

5) This paper to employ the 4 Cs (clear, concise, concrete, current/flow) in the writing, while using some of the techniques we discussed in class to make your writing more readable.

6) The works cited page needs to be formatted properly, entries in alphabetical order, and containing the proper style (IEEE, MLA, or APA). Citations are needed in proper places and if block quotes used, these should be formatted properly.

7) Paper should begin with an abstract.

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