Homework

Paper #2, 30 April.

Content: This is a good description of the argument over the Iranian UN ambassodor’s ability to reach New York to perform his job, and the United States’ assertion of its own laws to prevent him from doing so. You do a good job telling the story, the reasons for the US’s decision, and what the consequences are so far. What you are lacking is the analytical framework to make this more than an interesting conflict between Iran and the United States. Carr wrote a lot about international law—use some of his ideas to give a context for the case. For example, some of your writing hints at the power of sovereignty in international law. Develop that idea, then point out how the case shows what sovereignty means. Other parts of the paper hint at diplomatic immunity—why does this exist, and what are the challenges to it from Iran and the United States? You tell the story well, but what does it mean in terms of international relations concepts? -See below on what to cite. You lose one point for this.

*Average descriptions, poor analysis.

Communication: Your ideas come through. But there are still places that need a native speaker’s knowledge about syntax. In addition, your bibliography is not following APA style. I am sending you the APA style sheet on citations and bibliographic entries. Use it for your last paper.

-No need to have the words “Running head:” on the running head. The title is enough. And the reader can see that it is a running head. The running head needs to appear on the bibliography page as well as all the others.

-You need to number all your pages, including the bibliography.
-See below on indent size. You lose one point for this.
-From the typography sheet: Use real quotation marks—never those grotesque generic marks

that actually symbolize inch or foot marks: “and”—not "and." Same for apostrophes. Be careful of cutting and pasting from the internet—the generic marks show up in this process.

-Just a small thing, but a translator works with texts; an interpreter works with the spoken word.

-Note that page one should be the first page of the paper, not the title page.
-Avoid first or second person pronouns in formal academic writing.
-Your citations are not following APA format (Sengupta& Gladstone, 2014). This is the

one that you have listed as “Jordain J. Paust.” His name is Jordan J. Paust. Sengupta, S., & Gladstone, R. (2014, 16 April).Iran Escalates Dispute Over U.N.

Envoy, New York Times, p. A11.

-Be sure pronouns and referents agree in number.
-Watch out for archaic formulations (e.g. amongst instead of among). When you write

for a British journal you can use them... -Cite by last name only (Friedman, 2013).

Friedman, G. (2010, 12 November). The U.S.-Iran Talks: Ideology and Necessity, Geopolitical Weekly: Stratfor—Global Intelligence. Retrieved from www.stratfor.com/weekly/us-iran-talks-ideology-and-necessity.

-From the typography sheet:

Hyphen is only for breaks in words or lines. It is the one you know from the keyboard, “-.”

En dash is used between words indicating a duration; from 7–9 tonight. Same for page numbers.

Em dash is the champion. Use this, basically, when you would use a semi-colon (look at that hyphen) in writing—if that is what you like.

-Single space within bibliographic citations; double space between them. -Punctuation goes inside quotation marks. The exceptions are rare.
-When there is no author, use the article title as the author (instead of BBC). Try this

(US Refuses Visa, 2014).
US Refuses Visa for Iran’s UN Envoy Choice Hamid Aboutalebi. (2014, 12 April).

BBC.com. Retrieved from www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26994936.