Final Project

For most college papers and projects, you will need to investigate and report on the scholarly research related to your topic-- in other words, establishing what has already been said. To do this, you must read and critically review each of your sources.

As stated in the syllabus, use your own words—copying another’s work and presenting as your own will get you ZERO on assignments, as will turning in the exact same answer as a classmate when working together. You may work as a group or team on some assignments, but answers are to be in your own words. Plagiarism on the final project will earn you a ZERO for the entire module.

Document must be typed or word-processed and proof-read the document before turning it in. Click here to see a sample document.

You must include:

Personal and Course Information: (in the top right corner)

Research Plan and Thesis Statement
This should be in your words and be the focus of your research paper for the GEL class. This is a concise, explanatory, factual statement to of what you expect to prove with your research.

Reference Entries (4 items total):

1. One scholarly article
2. One scholarly book
3. One website/Internet source
4. One popular article or newspaper

Analyticals

1. APA Citation for your item
2. Provide the author’s credentials and source publication status as scholarly or popular
3. Main ideas of the items cited.
4. Contribution to your understanding of the research topic?
5. Quotation that you might want to include in your presentation. Include the in-text citation (see example)

Follow this checklist to verify completeness before turning the project in:

• Sources must be in APA format
• Use hanging indent on the citations (second line is indented from the left margin ½”)
• Single space each item, but double space between entries.
• Check your spelling and grammar
• Have you included all four required items?
• Each analytic is IN YOUR WORDS