Extra Credit

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Extra Credit Term Paper Option	Extra Credit "Lecture" Option
Handing in Extra Credit Papers	On-Line Writing Assistance

You may earn extra credit by . . .

writing a term paper supplementing any topic related to Cultural Anthropology, and / or
by attending a lecture and writing a paper on the lecture, or reviewing an approved equivalent (for e.g., a video critique/review)

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

Papers are Due to your Moodle folder

Extra Credit papers are due to your folder on Thursday, 28 June 2012

APA Sample Papers
Sample APA Paper: Definitions of Online Communication
Sample APA Paper: Adolescent Depression

MLA Sample Papers
MLA Undergraduate Sample Paper: Andrew Carnegie
MLA Sample Papers: Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks

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Extra Credit Term Paper Option

Extra Credit papers are due to your folder on Thursday, 28 June 2012

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 or two 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 Study. Essentially the extra credit paper should be a "normal" term paper.

In Cultural Anthropology extra credit term papers usually run 8 - 12 pages, including a separate title page and a separate "Works Cited" or "References" page.

Your paper(s) should be on SOME OTHER TOPIC than your case study focus. You may choose anything discussed in the lectures or the text other than the case study topic(s).

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 can earn up to 100 points -- if they are turned in on time (ca. 9%) . For example . . .

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:

Extra Credit papers are due to your folder on Thursday, 28 June 2012
Paper Due to your Moodle folder
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
Style: For the Paper, academic
Format: Any standard format and citation convention (APA, MLA, Turabian-Chicago . . . )
- doublespaced
- with one-inch margins all around
- with body type font 11 or 12
- illustrations, tables, figures, diagrams . . . may be included, but must be properly placed and cited

must follow conventional college writing guidelines. These can be reviewed at any of the following sites . . .

The Purdue Online Writing Lab
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
<http://www.powa.org/>

Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed. on-line site
<http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook6e/Player/index.aspx>

Soc-Anth Writing Guide
<http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/home/guideind.php>

Other web resources can be found on the UMD "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page.

For your footnotes, "Works Cited" or "References" ("bibliography"), 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. See the OWL Sample Papers below for examples . . .

APA Sample Papers
Sample APA Paper: Definitions of Online Communication
Sample APA Paper: Adolescent Depression

MLA Sample Papers
MLA Undergraduate Sample Paper: Andrew Carnegie
MLA Sample Papers: Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks

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

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A note on Wikipedia and the like . . .

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.

Wikipedia

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 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.

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On-line Resources which might be helpful include:

for your research papers try the
UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources >
Assignment Calculator
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/>

Paper is due to assigment area

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Extra Credit, Lecture Option

Boiled down to the essentials, the requirements for a review extra credit paper are fairly simple:

For the film/lecture review extra credit you need to watch/attend a film or a lecture

Cultural Anthropology On-Line Lectures

Your report should be a page and a half or so, with two parts . . .
1. a summary of the film or lecture, andyour reaction to and evaluation of it
2. additional information on style, length . . .is below

If you have other films or lectures in mind, just check in with their titles or other information.

You may do one extra credit film / lecture review
and / or one extra credit Case Study option

(Please Note: For the Film / Lecture Review Option you must choose a feature-length film or a documentary relevant to the class that is not assigned in class.)

Cultural Anthropology On-Line Lectures

due to your folder within forty-eight hours of the event

Public lectures are often given at the Depot in Duluth, at the Art Institute, at the Fairlawn Mansion and Museum in Superior, and on the college campuses in the Twin Ports area.

You can receive extra credit by attending a public lecture relating to Cultural Anthropology, and writing up a brief paper on the event.

Qualifying lectures will be announced in class and on your personal e-mail account. And if you see a lecture that you think might qualify, ask about it.

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

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

Lecture Option Papers:

due to your folder within forty-eight hours of the event
may earn an extra 30 points (ca. 2.7%)
reviews may be short (two to three well-written high-quality pages)
- figure about 250 words per normal double-spaced page with one-inch margins and 11 or 12 point fonts
must be word-processed
must follow conventional college writing guidelines. These can be reviewed at any of the following sites . . .

The Purdue Online Writing Lab
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
<http://www.powa.org/>

Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed. on-line site
<http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook6e/Player/index.aspx>

Soc-Anth Writing Guide
<http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/home/guideind.php>

Other web resources can be found on the UMD "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page.

For your footnotes, "Works Cited" or "References" ("bibliography"), 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. See the OWL Sample Papers below for examples . . .

APA Sample Papers
Sample APA Paper: Definitions of Online Communication
Sample APA Paper: Adolescent Depression

MLA Sample Papers
MLA Undergraduate Sample Paper: Andrew Carnegie
MLA Sample Papers: Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks

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

for your research papers try the
UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources >
Assignment Calculator
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/>

Paper is due to assigment area

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Handing in Extra Credit Papers

Extra Credit papers are due to your folder on Thursday, 28 June 2012
papers must be word-processed
Late papers will not be accepted unless you have made prior arrangements
When you upload your Cultural Anthropology extra credit paper to your folder call your file something like . . .

your e-mailname_assignment_name
[your email name is your University of Minnesota Internet ID (X.500 user name)]

e.g., smit0013_CA_extracredit
Include the following information on your paper:
- name
- date
- course number
- quarter
- "Extra Credit Paper"
Style: For the Paper, academic
Format: Any standard format and citation convention (APA, MLA, Turabian-Chicago . . . )
- doublespaced
- with one-inch margins all around
- with body type font 11 or 12
- illustrations, tables, figures, diagrams . . . may be included, but must be properly placed and cited

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

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This course is governed by the . . .

University of Minnesota Duluth Student Academic Integrity Policy
<http://d.umn.edu/academic-affairs/academic-policies/classroom-policies/student-academic-integrity>

UMD Office of Student and Community Standards
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/>
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Use of AI-content generators for assignments in this class

When I taught Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences here at UMD, for over twenty-five years, my rule of thumb advice to students was to plan to spend 60% or more of their time and effort revising drafts (for academic type writing).

In 2001 Wikipedia appeared on the scene and very quickly became a useful tool as a starting point for many academic projects even though as an open-source resource the Wikipedia entries are not checked and verified in the same manner as other traditional reference materials.

Spelling and grammar checkers arrived on the general scene and helped with spelling and grammar checking, but, as you no doubt have discovered, they continue to require human editing.

And, of course, before that we had a selection of excellent Encyclopedia offering good starting points for many projects, the most popular being The Encyclopedia Brittanica.

And long before that there were libraries--since at least the days of Alexandria in Egypt, in the third century B.C.

The bottom line . . .

Today the evolution of research resources and aids continues with the relatively rapid appearance of ChatGPT and other automated content generators.

As many folks have already found out, they can be very useful as starting points, much like their predecessors. But, from the academic point of view, they are still only starting points.

Professors nationwide are for the most part advised, and even encouraged, to experiment with the potentials of ChatGPT and similar apps.

In this class it is fine to experiment, with the caveat that all of your written academic work demonstrates that your personal efforts—including content development and revision—reflect your personal originality, exploration, analysis, explanation, integrating and synthesizing of ideas, organizational skills, evaluation, and overall learning and critical thinking efforts.

That is to say you may experiment with the AI tool to do tasks such as e.g, brainstorming, narrowing topics, writing first drafts, editing text, and the like. AI-generated works should in no case be more than that.

In the end you need to become familiar enough with the various subjects, peoples, and places discussed in this class to research a topic and problem-solve on your own, and carry on an intelligent conversation about them in modern-day society . . . a conversation that goes byond your voicing an unsupported opinion.

Please ask questions of and offer comments to

troufs@d.umn.edu

USEFUL LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION:

From Jill Jenson, Director of the Academic Writing & Learning Center

Some citation methods:

For the record, what follows is the official UMD Academic Integrity Policy. Note that "unless otherwise noted by the faculty member" this is the default policy.

"UMD’s Academic Integrity policy covers any work done by automated content generators such as ChatGPT or other generative artificial intelligence tools unless otherwise noted by the faculty member. These tools present new challenges and opportunities."

"Within the confines of this class The use of AI-content generators is strictly prohibited for any stage of homework/assignment (e.g., draft or final product). The primary purposes of college are developing your thinking skills, being creative with ideas, and expanding your understanding on a wide variety of topics. Using these content generating AI tools thwarts the goal of homework/assignments to provide students opportunities to achieve these purposes. Please make the most of this time that you have committed to a college education and learn these skills now, so that you can employ them throughout your life." -- Jennifer Mencl, UMD Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, 10 May 2023

Current information from the UMN Senate Committee on Educational Policy Resources

<https://provost.umn.edu/chatgpt-syllabus-statements>

See Also Using Wikipedia and other Standard Reference Works

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"Academic dishonesty tarnishes UMD's reputation and discredits the accomplishments of students. UMD is committed to providing students every possible opportunity to grow in mind and spirit. This pledge can only be redeemed in an environment of trust, honesty, and fairness. As a result, academic dishonesty is regarded as a serious offense by all members of the academic community. In keeping with this ideal, this course will adhere to UMD's Student Academic Integrity Policy, which can be found at [http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/integrity/Academic_Integrity_Policy.htm]

. This policy sanctions students engaging in academic dishonesty with penalties up to and including expulsion from the university for repeat offenders." — UMD Educational Policy Committee, Jill Jensen, Chair (08/16/2007)

and the UMD Student Conduct Code
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/code/>

and the

Student Conduct Code Statement (students' rights)
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/conduct/conduct-statement.html>

The instructor will enforce and students are expected to follow the University's Student Conduct Code [http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/academic/Student_Conduct_Code.html]. Appropriate classroom conduct promotes an environment of academic achievement and integrity. Disruptive classroom behavior that substantially or repeatedly interrupts either the instructor's ability to teach, or student learning, is prohibited. Disruptive behavior includes inappropriate use of technology in the classroom. Examples include ringing cell phones, text-messaging, watching videos, playing computer games, doing email, or surfing the Internet on your computer instead of note-taking or other instructor-sanctioned activities." — UMD Educational Policy Committee, Jill Jensen, Chair (08/16/2007)

Instructor and Student Responsibilities Policy

AVISO!

A Note on Extra Credit Papers

Failure to comply with the above codes and standards when submitting an Extra Credit paper will result in a penalty commensurate with the lapse, up to and including an F final grade for the course, and, at a minimum, a reduction in total points no fewer than the points available for the Extra Credit project. The penalty will not simply be a zero for the project, and the incident will be reported to the UMD Academic Integrity Officer in the Office of Student and Community Standards.

A Note on "Cutting and Pasting" without the Use of Quotation Marks
(EVEN IF you have a citation to the source somewhere in your paper)

If you use others' words and/or works you MUST so indicate that with the use of quotation marks. Failure to use quotation marks to indicate that the materials are not of your authorship constitutes plagiarism—even if you have a citation to the source elsewhere in your paper/work.

Patterned failure to so indicate that the materials are not of your own authorship will result in an F grade for the course.

Other instances of improper attribution will result in a 0 (zero) for the assignment (or a reduction in points equal to the value of an Extra Credit paper), and a reduction of one grade in the final grade of the course.

All incidents will be reported to the UMD Academic Integrity Officer in the Office of Student and Community Standards as is required by University Policy.

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