For Professor Anthony

Paper 2 CMN/LIN 5 Spring 2016

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Instructions for the Forums and Email Analysis Paper: What You Learned About Intercultural Communication

The purpose of the second CMN/LIN 5 paper is to analyze what you learned about Intercultural Communication from participating in the forums and the email. For this paper, read through all the forum posts for your group, and all the emails you sent and received in your group—including your own emails, the emails of the Brazilian students, and the emails of your California classmates. As you receive the second email from your Brazilian partners (roughly May 18) read these too. Continue reading your classmates’ forum posts. As you do so, think about which emails and forum posts were most interesting to you. Also think about which concepts from Piller led to the most interesting interactions in your group. Think about what you learned from your groupmates, your Brazilian partners, and from Piller. Based on this experience of reading through forum posts and emails, construct an argument about some important aspect of Intercultural Communication. You can use ideas from the BASIC framework as part of this, but you don’t have to. To support your argument, quote emails and forum posts from your group. It will probably be useful to quote Piller (if you do, give the page number), but this is not a strict requirement. One way or another, you need to connect clearly to course themes as discussed in sections or lecture. The important thing is to make a clear argument about Intercultural Communication and use quotes from the forum posts and emails as evidence/examples to support your argument. NOTE: It is possible to quote just the forum posts, or just the emails, or both forum posts and emails. [It is not required that you quote both forum posts AND emails] Be sure your paper:

• Has a title page and an interesting title • Is 3 pages in length (750-1000 words) aside from your title page • Uses standard formatting (1-inch margins, Times font or something similar, 12 point font,

double-spaced) • Addresses an audience that is the broader community of CMN/LIN 5 participants • Makes connections to course themes from section discussions, lecture, or the textbook • Uses quotation marks correctly, where necessary, and sparingly (see below) • Is proofread, spellchecked, and substantially free from preventable errors • Is uploaded to SmartSite assignments by Friday June 3 at 5 pm

Citing sources and plagiarism: Plagiarism is the use of others’ work as your own and is reportable to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs for appropriate sanctions. When writing or researching, the sources used (in this case, the Piller textbook, forum posts, or your group members’ emails) must be cited in order to avoid plagiarism, a serious form of academic dishonesty. For this paper, citing your source and putting the author’s exact words in quotation marks will be important. For longer quotes, it is appropriate to paraphrase or use block quotes. The examples given here are in APA citation style, which is commonly used for the social sciences. FOR THIS PAPER, YOU WILL ONLY CITE IN THE BODY OF YOUR PAPER— YOU DO NOT NEED A LIST OF REFERENCES AT THE END.

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How to cite your sources in APA style

Examples of how to integrate shorter quotes from email in APA style: According to Mary Wong, “Listening to music is the best way to learn about another culture” (email, 5/22/15). Mary Wong explains that “Listening to music is the best way to learn about another culture” (email, 5/22/15). In an email, dated 5/22/15, Mary Wong argues that in her experience, exploring music from another culture is a particularly valuable path to intercultural understanding. For quotes longer than 40 words, use block quotes. An example with proper formatting is appears in the example below. To create block quotes, set its margins ½ inch from the normal margins. What you are reading here is an example of a block quote. If you are introducing the

author in this introductory sentence, you should include the author’s name, date, and page

number. Use a colon ahead of the block quote like this:

Thank you for your recent purchase. We hope you’ll take the time to review your

product and share your opinion with fellow Eddie Bauer customers. It will help

your community make smarter purchase decisions, and it will help us serve you

better. So don't hold back—share your review and voice your opinion (Eddie

Bauer, email, 5/16/15).

For a more detailed explanation of block quotes, see: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2013/06/block-quotations-in-apa-style.html We welcome you in office hours if you have questions about formatting, citations, and ideas. The Student Academic Success Center (http://success.ucdavis.edu/academic/index.html) is a resource for drop-in writing tutoring and appointments with writing specialists.

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Grading rubric for Paper 2

Components Points (__/10)

Paper is organized and follows a logical flow of ideas beginning with an introduction of the topic and finishing with a conclusion drawn from the analysis.

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Paper provides an effective analysis. Uses evidence/examples from the forum posts and/or email project to support the analysis that is developed.

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Clear connection of emails and/or forum posts to topics from textbook or from section discussion.

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Paper follows assignment specifications (title page, title, word count, formatting, free from preventable errors).

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Uses quotes, quotation marks, block quotes correctly and sparingly. Complete and correct APA citations within the paper

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Addresses the CMN/LIN 5 community with a general sense of clarity while using appropriate language.

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