Paper topic statement due to by Friday, 18 February 2011, 11:55 p.m.
NOTE: Try to work an analystical section into your paper, and at least think about approaching your Anth of Food term paper and project from the traditional "four-fold" approach of American Anthropology. If the "four-fold" approach does not work as a major appoach, consider at least addressing in summary form the relationship of your chosen topic(s) to traditional American Anthropology.
Audience: Classmmates
Purpose: To let them know what you were working on, and what you found out, and what might be interesting to look at in the future
Style: For the Paper, academic; for the Presentation, informal
When relevant to your topic be sure to work in what is happening now; that is, where appropriate, relate it to current affairs.
Term Paper (1) bibliography and Term Paper (2) promissory abstract due by Friday, 4 March 2011, 11:55 p.m.
Your CP Term Paper is due by Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.
Your CP Term Paper is due by Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.
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from today)
REM: make sure your paper--whatever else it may focus on--
relates to (and includes discussion of the relavance of the topic to)
culture and personality studies
Your CP Term Paper is due by Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.
Your textbooks and class materials are the best place are most often the best place to start.
Using Wikipedia and Desk References
It is fine for you to begin a project by consulting with Wikipedia (and similar on-line sources of encyclopaedic-type information) 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).
And Wikipedia, should you use it, should only be a starting point.
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 UMD E-Journal Locator, JSTOR, etc., 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.
Your paper should reflect a synthesis and evaluation of materials researched.
Try getting more information by looking at sites on
the web:
Try surfing the web by searching with the search
engines found by clicking on the Web "Search" button
found on the upper righthand corner of the course WebPages.
This will take you to the course Search
Engines Page.
Hint: When you do a search on an item that has more
than one word, like "stone tools," use the "Advanced
Search" option and enter the words in the "exact
phrase" box -- otherwise it will search out everything
with "stone" and everything with "tools," and the list
of "hits" could get quite large.
Suggestion: Don't put off the Web
work. The web doesn't always work when you want it to.
When you write anything you should consider
audience, purpose, and your
personal style. For your paper, your audience
should be your classmates in this class. (Do not
write your college papers to the professor as audience.
Your CP Term Paper is due by Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.
REM: make sure your paper--whatever else it may focus on--
relates to (and includes discussion of the relavance of the topic to)
culture and personality studies
Paper topic statement due to by Friday, 18 February 2011, 11:55 p.m.
Term Paper (1) bibliography and Term Paper (2) promissory abstract due by Friday, 4 March 2011, 11:55 p.m.
Your CP Term Paper is due by Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.
Put your paragraph(s) summarizing your paper here.
Put a transitional statement here.
Body
[Give this section an interesting subtitle, something
other than "Body"]
Describe and discuss your chosen topic(s) here. Use some form
of organizational structure.
The "Journalist's Questions,"
Who,What, When, Where, How
and Why are often helpful. A time sequence is also useful.
Use the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant if you do not have
much experience writing college papers.
