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Style Sheet Anthropology of Globalization

Fall 2015 These are some basic guidelines and recommendations for writing your research paper. Use 12 point font, one inch margins, and double-space each page. Research Paper:

The content of your research paper includes a thesis, theoretical discussion, historical background, and cultural analysis. The thesis should be in the opening paragraph, along with a description of what the reader should expect to find in the paper. Think of the opening paragraph as an introduction to the entire paper, including your main points. You will have to write and re- write the opening paragraph numerous times before it is strong enough for your paper.

In the theoretical discussion, you should use the readings from the course as well as resources (texts, films, etc.) found outside of class to develop a broad view of globalization and culture. In other words, your theoretical discussion is your chance to put forth an argument about your topic within the framework of global culture. While you can base your theoretical argument on other people’s writings, be sure that your theory makes sense with the focus of your paper. Does your theoretical discussion make a broad statement about both your research topic and globalization? And, have you thoroughly discussed your theoretical approach?

The historical background is detailed information about your topic. For instance, if your paper is about an aid organization, you should discuss the history of that aid organization. The majority of your historical background will come from doing research in libraries, on the Internet, or through interviewing knowledgeable people.

The final section is the cultural analysis where you detail the current activities, practices, ideologies, values, etc. of the people that you are researching. To continue with the previous example, in providing cultural analysis, you would discuss who the aid organization, how it operates, its effectiveness, the impact of globalization on its mission, etc. Your goal in this paper is to provide as much detail about your topic which will support your paper’s main argument. Citations:

To cite a book or article, you need to do two things. In the paper itself, you need to place

a brief citation of any work that you quote, draw information from, or acknowledge as influencing your ideas. For example:

After reading several books on tattoo parlors, I realized that Jim Smith’s book Tattoo in

American Culture was the most important to my ethnography because it clearly articulated the reason people decide to have tattoos.

OR:

One author pointed out that tattoos are a social symbol, and often connote certain meanings in American society (Smith 1999: 23).

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In the second example, the author’s last name, the date the book was published, and the page number the information was drawn from were placed in parentheses.

References At the end of your paper, you need to have a reference section. At the top of your last page, you should write References. Then, you should list all books, articles, interviews, etc.that you used to write your paper. Make sure all references have the correct punctuation. To cite a book, use the following model (including punctuation). Author’s name. Year of Publication. Title of Publication. Place of Publication: Publisher. For articles Author’s name. Year of Publication. “Name of Article,” Title of Magazine or Newspaper, date of

article: page number(s) of article.

Websites (Author, if know). Name of website or organization sponsoring website. Title of publication,

article, or webpage. URL address, date that information was taken. For example: UNESCO. Health in Developing Countries. Http://www.unesco.org/home/cin-bin/layers.

September 28, 2003. Music Albums/ Records/ CDs Band or artist name. Year. Album Title. Record company, ID number. For example: Abdallah, Salum & Cuban Marimba. 2000. Ngoma Iko Huko: Vintage Tanzanian Dance Music,

1955-1965. Dizim Records, dizim 4701.

Spelling, Grammar, and Proofreading: There should be no spelling or grammar errors in your paper. To ensure that you have no errors in your paper, read your paper several times. The best method is to read your paper out

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loud so that you can hear any mistakes in your writing. Have someone else read your paper if you can. EVERY SENTENCE SHOULD MAKE SENSE AND RELATE TO YOUR TOPIC. Avoid using slang, unless it is part of your ethnography. Also, be firm in your writing. Avoid words such as “seem,” which sounds like you are unsure of your topic. Last, avoid contractions such as don’t, it’s, etc. Spell out the words, do not, it is, etc. And, obviously, use the correct words. Do not mix up their and there, its and it’s, and then and than. For further information, you can read William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s book, The Elements of Style.

Plagiarism:

What is Plagiarism and Why is it Important?

In college courses, we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

How to Avoid Plagiarism?

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory; • any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common

knowledge; • quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or • paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

How to Recognize Unacceptable and Acceptable Paraphrases

Here’s the ORIGINAL text, from page 1 of Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1890s by Joyce Williams et al.:

The rise of industry, the growth of cities, and the expansion of the population were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and provided jobs for a rising tide of immigrants. With industry came urbanization the growth of large cities (like Fall River, Massachusetts, where the Bordens lived) which became the centers of production as well as of commerce and trade.

Here’s an UNACCEPTABLE paraphrase that is plagiarism:

The increase of industry, the growth of cities, and the explosion of the population were three large factors of nineteenth century America. As steam-driven companies became more visible in the eastern part of the country, they changed farm hands into factory workers and provided jobs

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for the large wave of immigrants. With industry came the growth of large cities like Fall River where the Bordens lived which turned into centers of commerce and trade as well as production.

What makes this passage plagiarism?

The preceding passage is considered plagiarism for two reasons:

• the writer has only changed around a few words and phrases, or changed the order of the original’s sentences.

• the writer has failed to cite a source for any of the ideas or facts.

If you do either or both of these things, you are plagiarizing. NOTE: This paragraph is also problematic because it changes the sense of several sentences (for example, "steam-driven companies" in sentence two misses the original’s emphasis on factories).

Here’s an ACCEPTABLE paraphrase: Fall River, where the Borden family lived, was typical of northeastern industrial cities of the nineteenth century. Steam-powered production had shifted labor from agriculture to manufacturing, and as immigrants arrived in the US, they found work in these new factories. As a result, populations grew, and large urban areas arose. Fall River was one of these manufacturing and commercial centers (Williams 1). Why is this passage acceptable?

This is acceptable paraphrasing because the writer:

• accurately relays the information in the original uses her own words.

• lets her reader know the source of her information.

For more information on plagarism go to: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml