Extra Credit

You may do one extra credit lecture option and / or one extra credit term paper.

A public lecture summary paper should contain at least two parts:

1. a summary of the talk or presentation, and,
2. your personal reaction to the presentation

Lecture Option Papers:

• may earn an extra 30 points (2.5%)
• may be short (two to three pages)
• are due due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> within forty-eight hours of the event
  • Paper Due to WebDrop
    <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
• must be word-processed
• must follow a college writing handbook such as Andrea Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed., (NY: St. Martin’s, 2008).
  
  Or you can follow the Soc-Anth Writing Guide.
  
  Other web resources such as OWL and Paradigm can be found on the UMD "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page.
  
  
  
  
• For your footnotes, "bibliography" ("Works Cited" or "References"), and other matters like that, use either the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style, the CMS (Chicago) style, or the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) style. Don't make up your own.

You may do one lecture extra credit lecture option and / or one extra credit term paper.

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This is basically an introductory course in which we will cover a broad spectrum of topics in a limited manner. Extra credit term papers allow you to cover one of those topics in a more comprehensive fashion.

You may write on any topic related to this course, but your paper must reflect work and include materials not considered a normal part of this course.

Extra credit work should be more comprehsive and detailed than the Case Studies. Essentially the extra credit paper should be a "normal" term paper. In Cultural Anthropology extra credit term papers usually run 8 - 12 pages.

It should be on SOME OTHER TOPIC than the case studies. You may choose anything discussed in the lectures or the text other than the case studies topics.

If you have not had a lot of experience writing term papers, this option provides an excellent opportunity to develop your writing skills. It also usually results in a higher grade for the course.

Extra credit term papers usually receive one to twelve points -- if they are turned in on time:

• C-grade papers receive 73 points
• B-grade papers receive 83 points
• A-grade papers receive 93-100 points
  
  ("curve")

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Extra credit term papers:

• are due by the last day of class
• Paper Due to WebDrop
  <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
• will not be accepted if they are late, unless you have received prior permission to hand in the paper after the deadline
• must be word-processed or typed
• must follow a college writing handbook such as Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors, The New St. Martin's Handbook. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
  
  Or you can follow the Soc-Anth Writing Guide.
  
  Other web resources such as OWL and Paradigm can be found on the UMD "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page.

• For your footnotes, "bibliography" ("Works Cited" or "References"), and other matters like that, use either the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style, the CMS (Chicago) style, or the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) style. Don't make up your own.

• It is fine for you to consult with Wikipedia for your term paper but you should be aware that the Wikipedia entries are open-source and are not checked and verified in the same manner as other reference materials. And sometimes the entries are confusing (have a look at "Macedonia," for example).

  It is also OK to start out your research by consulting reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and lexica, glosaries, other general reference works, and the like, but this stage should only be a preliminary preparation for more focused and in-depth research work.

  For a college research paper you should also have a look at other references, either traditional materials from the library, or on-line materials from sources like JSTOR (search on JSTOR), or books and manuscripts On-Line. That is to say Wikipedia and the other reference-type sources listed should not be your only source of information. And you must add your own evaluations, comparisons, development, criticisms, critiques, and the like to any reference materials used. Simply cutting and pasting information from sources is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of either a required or extra-credit research paper.

  
  
  
• On-line Resources which might be helpful include:
  • Infotrac®
  • JSTOR©
  • LEXIS-NEXIS®
  • Soc-Anth-Hum / Cultural Studies Search Engines and Reference Works
  • UMD On-Line Library Resources
  • General Reference Works
  • Books and Manuscripts On-Line

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Handing in Extra Credit Papers

• papers are due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
• papers must be word-processed
• Papers will not be accepted after the last day of class unless you have made prior arrangements
• Include the following information on your paper:
  
  
  • name
  • course number
  • quarter
  • "Extra Credit Paper"
  • version number
    

You may do one extra credit lecture option and extra credit term paper.