Students in groups provide one paper in the Anglo-American Studies Module 3 seminar with individual contributions of approximately 1000 words for each student-writer.

Students in groups provide two papers in the Anglo-American Cultural Studies Module 6 seminar. Your first paper is a warm-up excerpt of four pages based on your warm-up lesson. Indicate parts of each chapter that you've had to leave out due to length restrictions by square brackets and ellipses [...] but remember to include all required aspects as given below: excerpt from the table of contents, the introduction, from all chapters, the conclusion, and from the bibliography. Your second paper is a research paper with individual contributions of approximately 2000 words for each student-writer.

You can find details of the criteria I use to evaluate all papers online.

All papers must be distributed at the latest by the end of the lesson as hard copies and fulfill the following format requirements: font size 14, double-spaced, margins 2 cm all round, justified right-hand margin; all paragraphs indented; line numbers given; paper reduced in size to A-5 printed on both sides of the page (thus four original A-4 sides = one final page front and back). You can also choose to upload an electronic version of your paper on OLAT as a supplement (not a substitute) for the hard copies provided to all students in the course.

All papers have a cover page with title of paper with topic and date of lesson including names of teachers, course name and semester; table of contents, an introduction, conclusion, and annotated bibliography as group responsibility; and content contributions from all individual student-teachers. Please indicate at least on my version of the paper who exactly is responsible for which sections and the number of words each student contributed individually to the paper. High-quality papers should have very few mistakes in spelling, mechanics, grammar, and stylistics. You should consult the Hodges' Harbrace Handbook available in the books reserved under my name in the library (Semesterapparat), for tips concerning overall organization, introductions and conclusions, mechanics, stylistics, and use of sources.

Giving Sources: Your sources, both direct quotes and indirect information, must be cited giving exactly. If you do not cite all sources, you run the risk of failure due to plagiarism. I strongly urge all students to read the chapter on avoiding plagiarism in the Hodges' Harbrace Handbook to make yourselves aware of the seriousness of plagiarism. You should also read here the department policy on plagiarism as well as Marco's tips on avoiding plagiarism in Anglo-American Studies work.

Successful research papers make extensive use of the course material. You must give persuasive reasons for using websites or other additional information available on the internet as sources for the content you've chosen in the annotated bibliography. Too often students choose to use the internet because they are unable or unwilling to do the necessary research using published sources in English or because they haven't taken the time to familiarize themselves with the course material. Please critique the websites you use as part of your bibliography in the research paper using the following  the six WWWWWW questions as a guide: 

• Who or which institution published it on the internet?
• Why did the author(s) go through the trouble of publishing the site online?
• What did you find on the site that you couldn't find in other sources?
• Why have you as teachers used this site as a source for your lesson?
• When was the site last updated?
• When did you last access the site?

Please note: Just because web pages can be found on a government or on a university website is not sufficient proof of their reliability! You should also always give the date you checked the internet source since websites frequently change or disappear. This date (often given in the phrase "site valid as of ..." or "last accessed on..." after the address of each site) should not be more than one week prior to your lesson. I strongly recommend that you consult Part VII Research and Documentation of the Hodges' Harbrace Handbook for detailed information about using the internet before beginning your research. Research papers that make extensive use of websites and of non-accessible sources (out-of-print books not available in Anglo-American libraries, obscure books found only in foreign libraries) or sources in German with information that can also be found in sources in English risk failure.

Your papers serve several purposes in our courses: 

• evidence of your ability to work together as a group to create an attractive and consistent research paper with a clear structure, useful and effective layout and graphics, a well-written introduction and conclusion, and a wisely chosen annotated bibliography 
• evidence of your individual choice of content and your awareness of the course material, your research work skills, and your use of language
• a service to your students by providing them with helpful information covered in your lesson, which they can use for their written lesson / paper review submissions, and / or more detailed information about topics that you didn't have time to cover in your lesson, and as a reference in other Anglo-American Studies courses and ideally in preparation for examinations or just out of general interest.

I'll be uploading my evaluation of your M3 paper (evaluation template for M3 paper) via OLAT within three weeks of your lesson but before your review conference session. You may have a look at my detailed corrections of your paper by reserving a 15-minute slot via the OLAT project group calendar. Please indicate that you want to have a look at the paper so that I can bring my corrected version to the office for us to look at together.

I'll be uploading my evaluation of your M6 paper (evaluation template for M6 paper) via OLAT after your review conference session since part of the M6 grade is based on how well you've analyzed your paper before seeing my evaluation.

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11.XII.2011