Second Essay -- Spring 2008
Prepare an essay responding to one of the questions linked below. You may draw upon any of the materials assigned for the class or on class lectures and discussions. Your grade will be based primarily on your use of these materials and not other materials you may refer to. If, however, you do make use of material that is not assigned, be sure to footnote your sources very carefully.
You Must Submit Both an Electronic Copy and a Paper Copy by 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday April 29.
[The Electronic Copy should be submitted through Oncourse. The paper copy should be left in my box in the History Department, Ballantine 742.
[Links to the questions themselves and other potentially useful information about this paper are at the bottom of the page.]
I. The Form of the Essay:
– Papers should be typewritten or printed on a computer and double-spaced
-- Include a cover sheet with your name and write your name on the back (but not the front) of each sheet of the essay. [This will assure anonymity in grading.]
-- Any ideas or information used in your essay that are not common knowledge (e.g. that you did not know when you began the course) must be clearly cited. A simple form may be used In the case of materials from the course reader (e.g. Becker, "History of the Future Reader," p.19.), other assigned readings (e.g. H.G.Wells, The Time Machine, p.68), the lectures (Pace lecture, Sept.10), or the web site (Thomas Ewbank, The World, a Workshop, History of the Future Web site, Week 4) Any other material that influenced your ideas or provided you with examples should be clearly cited in notes that provide all the information needed to find the original source. (There is certainly no expectation that you will need anything except what has been provided in this course, and, even if you make some use of other sources, the majority of the essay should be based on the course materials.)
-- All papers must be securely stapled together
II. Length -- Five Pages
We will cease reading essays at the end of the fifth page, and nothing that follows will be considered in determining your grade. You should use standard margins (at least one inch) and fonts no smaller than 12cpi.**
III. Extra copy
It is your responsibility to keep an extra copy of the final draft of the paper until the original is returned to you.
IV. Plagiarism and Late Papers
Be sure that you thoroughly understand the course policies on plagiarism and late papers. (Click on the words to reach a statement of these policies.) If anything is not clear, please let us know. If you are confused, you are almost certainly no alone.
V. Submitting the paper
You will in need to submit your paper in both paper and electronic forms:
1) Electronically via Oncourse
and
2) Hand in a paper copy to my box in the History Department, 742 Ballantine Hall.
Click here for some suggestions about how to go about writing this paper.