Academic standards:

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

• BIBLIOGRAPHIES must be included and be written in the form listed for class texts:

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 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 for the essay.

• IDENTIFICATION: Essays will be identified only by Social Security number when handed in at the beginning of class.

• LATE PAPERS: For each day an essay is late, one letter grade or the equivalent number of points will be deducted from the essay.

• CONTENT shall be developed using a theme 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

SAMPLE OUTLINE