Everyone in the 112 and 326 classes were emailed the calendars for the last three weeks of class, the digital presentation rubric, the research project rubric, and the peer review sheet.

Please check your email for those.

It’s been great having you in class.

Research Paper Evaluation Form

http://www.teachingcollegeenglish.com/2008/04/19/7-things-to-avoid/
Parallelism issues in headings were on purpose. (Students were supposed to notice.) Ask students to rewrite the headings so that they are parallel.

BBC and overuse of warnings links do not work

http://www.teachingcollegeenglish.com/2008/04/21/worst-ever-winners/

Poor directions and manual-writing examples.

Dates for magazines, newsletters, and newspapers should include “the year and the exact date of the publication (month or month and day),” according to the APA Publication Manual (6th ed., 6.28, p. 185). This means that the month should be given for monthlies, and the month and day for weeklies. If the periodical uses a season with the year, put the year, a comma, and the season in parentheses (2008, Early Spring).

from Blog.APAStyle.org

So anything published at least every month (and therefore also more often) must include whatever dating information is available.

You may use twenty, if you like.

You must have both a thesis that is overarching and tells me the direction you plan to go. Not just “‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ shows the flexibility of humanity.” Instead something like “‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ shows the flexibility of humanity through the different porridge temperatures, different chair sizes, and different bed hardness. In addition, it shows that even stubborn humans can learn.” Can you see where I could tell what your main points are in the second, but not so much in the first? (Don’t think this would work for 1,500 words, but it might get you started.)

You must use one fairy tale.

You may use two fairy tales (or more), two different versions of the same fairy tale, two fairy tales that are of the same folkloric type (use the Folktexts site at pitt.edu for that), or even a fairy tale and its movie adaptation. You may also add scholarly research or background information that is found at a deeper level than a simple web search or Wikipedia.

You may quote. You must quote at least once.

You may not quote more than 15% of the paper. At least 85% of the paper should be your own thoughts or your paraphrasing or summarizing of someone else’s thoughts.