The final draft of the paper compares a theorist from the first half of the class with one from the second half. This means you need to go back, edit, and refine your writing from your midterm and add another 4ish pages showing how a theorist from the second half of the class would explain the same event. The final part of your paper should also have an analysis where you make a claim about who can explain the current event you are writing about better and why you think they can do so. In total, the final draft should be 8-10 pages.
General Paper Guidelines
1. Formatting: Papers must be in Calibri 11, Aptos 11, or Times New Roman 12 font, double spaced, and with standard margins. Any paper not submitted in this format will receive an automatic 0. You will have 24 hours from when I see the paper/give it its grade to fix it in order to receive credit.
2. A formal academic writing style is expected. The degree to which this matters increases is raised with each draft.
3. Full in-text citations and a reference sheet are expected with each draft. The reference sheet does not count toward the page limit.
4. Anything past the page limit will not be read/not counted as submitted.
5. Doing a paper like this requires synthesizing, analytic skills, and the ability to write with depth in a concise manner. This means finding where arguments and points overlap between different pieces and linking them together in the same paragraph, sometimes the same sentence. It also means learning to boil down articles to a few key points and arguments and learning how to line them all up in a logical order. This is the point of the paper’s design. To teach you to develop your own ideas and process a large amount of information, synthesize it, and present your own theory-based analysis in a clear and concise manner.
6. Avoid the use of unanalyzed quotes.
7. I am always happy to look over rough drafts. However you need to email me your draft beforehand and/or provide a hard copy in person. If you are unsure about something or want feedback before submission, please visit my office hours.
8. To help you with both the assignments and the readings an additional reading and writing guide has been posted to Canvas.
Above all else: BE BOLD. What matters here is the work you put into thinking big and making connections between theory and the empirical world. It involves build reasoning skills above all else. What matters to me is that you are taking the effort to build the analysis and explanations you need. When it comes to theory there are some limits to this (ex: you can’t say that the class domination theory of power posits that all groups engage in political action and have equal chances for success) but we don’t all need identical readings. I will always favor creative and well thought out theorizing over a cautious coverage of what is going on and not thinking about how it connects to theory and/or everything and everyone else in the world.
Requirements: 8-10 pages
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