ACADEMIC STANDARDS
GRADE AIDS

See Dr. Stans Website


Editing

Students may use any acceptable scholarly style such as the Chicago Manual of Style.

When using out side sources, bibliographies must be included and be written in the form listed for class texts:

Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. 1981. Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography. Orlando: Harcort Brace College Publishers.

All direct citations must be noted with parenthesis or paragraph double indent in the following manner (Grobsmith 1981:18). If not directly quoted, the source of any information that is not general knowledge must be notated as follows (Grobsmith 1981).


Plagiarism

Plagiarism shall consist of three or more words identical to a referenced work that is not in quotations and/or is not referenced as the source of the material. The instructor has been known to check out references on-line or in the library. Any violation of referred work or collaboration with another student shall result in a failing grade.


Essay Format

Subject content shall be developed using a subject/perspective discussed in class in the following outline:

A. Hypothesis or question

B. Evidence

1. Example

2. Example

C. Synthesis

Was your hypothesis or question correct and why.

What do you think the implications are?

D. Bibliography. Example:

Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. 1981. Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography. Orlando: Harcort Brace College Publishers.

Harold Hunt [pseud.]. 1997. Interview by author. Tape recording. Ft. Myers, Fl., 21 October, 1997.