Research Paper

Draft One Information: Peer Review Day

For peer review day of the research paper, you will bring two copies of your paper, one copy of the MLA Checklist, and one copy of the Peer Review Form.  You will work very hard with one other classmate to evaluate each other's paper.  I will sit with a stack of papers and give a quick glance and suggestions.

Make sure you have a stapled draft one that:

a.  is 6 to 7 pages, directly followed by a Works Cited Page, plus a clean list of interview questions (without answers):  all in MLA 2009 format, remembering to include the “medium” of the source. Databases are italicized. Journals, books, and newspapers are italicized. Articles are in quotes.

b. has in-text citations and the Works Cited page should match AND have at least 4 scholarly sources, plus a few others:  your interview, maybe a government website, a blog sponsored by your subculture, maybe some articles from reputable sources like the New York Times, the Huffington Post, or NPR that just aren't peer-reviewed.  I'm sure you have plenty of sources by now.

c.  hopefully includes an interview that you conducted.  If not, figure out how to get one by the next draft’s due date.

d.  addresses the following:  Who/what is this subculture?  Background/history?  What are their core beliefs/practices?  What do they do together?  What do others think about them?  What is affecting/impacting them right now?  What sort of issues/controversies surround them? Who are famous members of this subculture? How are they represented/misrepresented in the media? (Film? t.v.?) How does your subculture use social media? (Facebook? Twitter? Tumblr?) To recruit new members? What is your subculture’s presence in Chico? Northern California?

Citing an interview:

Personal Interview Conducted by YOU

Name of Interviewee.

Kind of Interview.

Date.

Brainard, Blair. Personal interview. 8 Apr. 2012.

· Name of the person interviewed is provided, but the interviewer's name is not

· Kind of interview might be “Personal interview” (you conducted it in-person) or “Telephone interview” (you conducted it over the phone)

· Date = date the interview was conducted

E-mail Interview or Exchange

Author of E-mail.	“Title of E-mail.”	Message to Recipient's Name.
Date of E-mail.	Medium = E-mail.

Hyde, Gene. “Re: It's Getting Punnier and Punnier.” Message to Blair A. Brainard.

     18 Mar. 2012. E-mail.

· Citations should be double-spaced and use hanging indents

· Author's name should be reversed

· Title of the e-mail is taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks

· After the title, put “Message to [insert Recipient's Name here]”

· Date that the e-mail was sent

· Medium = “E-mail”

http://libguides.radford.edu/content.php?pid=49115&sid=361287

In-text citation of a personal interview:

http://libguides.radford.edu/content.php?pid=49115&sid=361287