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Kevin Psonak

Department of Writing & Linguistics, College of

Arts & Humanities

, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

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Paper Requirements

include, but are not limited to, the following:

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In Paper 1, in order to ensure that you are engaging with highly effective writing, in every

submission, cite:

at least one source from the 50+ readings in the course textbook;

at least one source from

Credo Reference

(650 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases,

reference handbook, etc.; 1000 videos); and

at least one additional source (for a total of at least three all together) from any

combination of the following resources:

Research Library

(hundreds of thousands of articles from 6,400+ periodical

titles);

CQ Researcher (Plus Archive)

;

Nexis Uni

(17,000+ newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, television

news transcripts, legal research sources, and business

research sources);

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

(39,000+ viewpoints and articles);

ProQuest Central

(2,000,000+ scholarly articles);

Films on Demand

(15,000 videos);

Ted.com

(2500+ talks

);

PolitiFact's Truth

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o

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Meter

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In Paper 2, cite at least one source from the course textbook, at least one from Credo

Reference, and at least an additional two sources (for a total of at least

four) from the above

list of resources.

In Paper 3, cite at least one source from the course textbook, at least one from Credo

Reference, and at least an additional three sources (for a total of at least five) from the

above list of resources.

(In order to

excel above average, engage with and cite twice as many sources as required.)

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In order to get credit for a source, make sure to mention one of the above

database/book/website names (e.g., Credo Reference) in your paper's bibliography entry

for the

so

urce, using the style specified at Purdue OWL's

"Modern Language Association

Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications)."

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Focus your research on one of the scores of topics co

vered in the readings in the last

several hundred pages of the textbook.

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Demonstrate your abilities in these areas, described in more detail on the rubric in Folio:

Perception

Originality

Marriage of Ideas

Precision

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Kevin Psonak

Department of Writing & Linguistics, College of

Arts & Humanities

, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

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1/14/2019 6:13 PM

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Turn in on time a first paper

submission (Paper 1.1, 2.1, and 3.1) and an extensively

revised second paper submission (Paper 1.2, 2.2, and 3.2) of each of the three papers.

Grades for late papers automatically go down one letter grade at the end of the day

(11:59pm) on which the paper

s are due; they then go down an additional letter grade each

day after that that they are late. This "countdown" stops after a week, so no matter how late

you deliver a paper, as long as you deliver it by this semester's last day of classes and do an

outst

anding job on it, you can still get some credit. Undelivered papers and papers

delivered after GSU's last day of classes for the semester will receive a grade of 0. If a

student is doing exceptionally well in the course, has a good reason for an extension,

and

notifies the instructor at least 24 hours before the due time, the instructor will consider

granting an extension, but since the academic schedule is packed, the instructor cannot

promise that he will be able to grant an extension.

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Adhere to the

Student Code of Conduct.

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The minimum and maximum word

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count requirements (specified in the paper prompts in

Folio) are strict. They apply to just the body of the paper. The heading, title, and Works

Cited do not count toward the word tally. The

maximum word

-

count requirement

encourages students to practice writing concisely and helps to ensure parity in the amount

of time that the instructor spends on each student's work.

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Include a Works Cited page in every paper as part of the same Word fil

e as the rest of

your paper (rather than as a separate *.docx file).

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F

ollow the dozens of

MLA formatting standards

. Sample MLA

-

formatted papers appear at

the Purdue Online Writing Lab

.

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Save the paper as a single Microsoft Word file (*.docx), and deliver it to the appropriate

Folio folder. If you do not own Wor

d, make sure to use the version of Word on University

computers.

Also,

note that

MyGSU's

Google Docs allows you to cre

ate Word files:

MyGSU | Log in | "MyA

pps" |

|

[upper left corner of screen] | “New” button |

"

Google Docs.

"

[When you are done

composing your document, save the file as a Word

document by going to File | Download as | Microsoft Word (.docx).]

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Remove all markup (highlighted text, colored text, comments, crossed

-

out text, etc.) before

delivering papers.

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Second submissions

(Papers 1.2, 2.2, and 3.2): Put at least as much time into these

submissions as you

put

into your first submissions (Papers 1.1, 2.1, and 3.1). Develop the

second submissions extensively

by following the steps at Hobart and William Smith

Colleges'

"Revision Strategies" page

.

Your grade will go down (from Papers 1.1, 2.1, and

3.1), potentially to a zero, unless you go far beyond just the changes that people suggest to

you and unless you d

evelop your papers significantly. To complete each resubmission, you

must consider the comments that you receive from the UWC, your peers, your friends,

your family, other GSU instructors, and this course's instructor on your first submission

thoughtfully,

act on them, and go far beyond them (e.g., by reading and integrating citations

from several more

Credo Reference

articles) in order to improve your paper substantially.

Make sure to use Word's Review | Compare | Compare | Compare... tool to revi

ew the

differences between your first and second submissions.

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