Anthropology of Europe
fka Peoples and Cultures of Europe)

Extra Credit
Term Paper Option

Wk 13 The AE Extra Credit Paper(s) is/are due by Sunday, 24 November 2024 (that's including the one day grace period)

AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

NOTE: The Gradebook entry for Extra Credit requires that “out of zero” be used when setting up an Extra Credit assignment.

Paper Due to your folder

If you have not had a lot of experience writing term papers, this option provides an excellent opportunity to develop your writing skills. It also usually results in a higher grade for the course.

You may write on any topic related to this course, but your paper must reflect work and include materials not considered a normal part of this course.

Extra credit work should be more comprehsive and detailed than your Case Study. Essentially the extra credit paper should be a "normal" term paper. In Anthropology of Europe extra credit term papers usually run 8 - 12 pages, including a title page and a separate "Works Cited" or "References" page.

As noted above, your extra credit paper should be on SOME OTHER TOPIC than your case study. You may choose anything discussed in the lectures or the text.

Extra credit term papers:

• may earn up to 100 points (6.1%)
  
  
• will not be accepted if they are late, unless you have received prior permission to hand in the paper after the deadline
  
  
• Papers must follow a college writing handbook such as Andrea Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed., (NY: St. Martin’s, 2008)
  
  
• Or you can follow the Sociology-Anthropology Department writing guide on the web at <http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/home/guideind.php>.
• Other web resources such as (the Purdue Online Writing Lab) <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>
  
  
• or Paradigm Online Writing Assistant at <http://www.powa.org/>
  
  
• Other useful information is available on the "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page
  
  
• For your footnotes, "bibliography" ("Works Cited" or "References"), and other matters like that, use either the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style, the CMS (Chicago) style, or the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) style. Don't make up your own.
  
  

• It is fine for you to begin a project by consulting with Wikipedia (and similar on-line sources of encyclopaedic-type information) but you should be aware that the Wikipedia entries are open-source and are not checked and verified in the same manner as other reference materials. And sometimes the entries are confusing (have a look at "Macedonia," for example). And Wikipedia, should you use it, should only be a starting point. Wikipedia more information on using Wikipedia in class A caution before citing Wikipedia Citing Wikipedia APA style MLA style Chicago style CBE/CSE Style Turabian style It is also OK to start out your research by consulting reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and lexica, glosaries, other general reference works, and the like, but this stage should only be a preliminary preparation for more focused and in-depth research work. For a college research paper you should also have a look at other references, either traditional materials from the library, or on-line materials from sources like UMD E-Journal Locator, JSTOR, etc., or books and manuscripts On-Line. That is to say Wikipedia and the other reference-type sources listed should not be your only source of information. And you must add your own evaluations, comparisons, development, criticisms, critiques, and the like to any reference materials used. Simply cutting and pasting information from sources is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of either a required or extra-credit research paper. Your paper should reflect a synthesis and evaluation of materials researched.

  
  
  
• On-line Resources which might be helpful include:
  
  
• Infotrac®
• JSTOR©
• LEXIS-NEXIS®
• Soc-Anth-Hum/Cl-Cultural Studies Search Engines and Reference Works
• UMD On-Line Library Resources
• General Reference Works
• Books and Manuscripts On-Line

Follow this schedule:

• Weeks 05 - 07: Select a question which interests you. You do not need to know much about the subject at this point.
  
  
• If you want to do a paper, pick out a "specific question" that interests you and stop by my office sometime. I will personally go over your ideas with you.
  
  
  • Have subject area okayed
    
    
• Week 08: Narrow and state subject area in terms of a "problem" or assertion. Prepare a bibliography of at least four items, and state problem in one or two sentences. Have bibliography and problem statement okayed.
  
  
• Week 09: Submit a one- or two-sentence statement of what you have found out and five reasons (bits of evidence) why the statement is credible.
  
  
• Weeks 10 - 11: Continue to research topic.
  
  
• Week 12: Prewrite draft of paper.
  
  
• Week 13: Complete a close-to-final draft of your extra credit paper. Write all drafts of your extra credit paper using a word processor.
  
  
• Weeks 14: Finish revising your drafts.
  
  
• Wk 13 The AE Extra Credit Paper(s) is/are due by Sunday, 24 November 2024 (that's including the one day grace period)
  
  AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?
  
  

  NOTE: The Gradebook entry for Extra Credit requires that “out of zero” be used when setting up an Extra Credit assignment.

  
  
  Due to your folder
  • call your file your emailname_paper_name
    • something like this: rouf0013_CEextracr

You may do one extra credit lecture option and extra credit term paper