Papers. Follow instructions EXACTLY for full credit.

Each week (except the first, which is special) you will write a 100 - 150 word essay on something related to the topics covered in class. The specific topic will be given on Monday's class and it will be due Friday. You must do research in scholarly literature outside of lecture material, but the topic will come from subjects studied in class that week. Topics will be announced in class and are also found as the assignmet's title in the Course Materials section of BlackBoard.

There will be several papers due over the course. The lowest paper score is dropped, the rest of them get counted for credit, and the BEST grade gets counted twice (like extra credit).

YES, ONE PAPER WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE OVERALL PAPER GRADE. YES, YOU GET TO DOUBLE THE TOP SCORE. This scores things a bit like bowling!

PAPERS MUST BE FROM 100-150 words. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE REFERENCE LIST.

!YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO REVIEW PAPERS FROM OTHER STUDENTS. FOLLOW INSTRUCITONS GIVEN IN CLASS.

•DUE DATES ARE FIRM. IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE THE PAPER, YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. NO LATE PAPERS ARE TAKEN WITHOUT VALID, UNIVERSITY-APPROVED REASON FOR ABSENCE.

•Topics are given each week and follow the topics of the class.

•Spelling and grammar count.

References:
• You must include at least 1 reference from a peer-reviewed journal that dates to 2004 or later. Your textbook and web sites are allowed as citations, but they do not count for the required reference.
• Your in-text citation(s) and reference list should follow the Chicago Manual of Style. It should include in-text citations ([T] in the Chicago Manual of Style) and a reference list at the END OF THE PAPER ([R] in the Chicago Manual of Style). DO NOT USE FOOTNOTES.

Everything gets turned in via Turn-It-In on a weekly basis.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Just to make things nice and sparkling clear, there are different forms of plagiarism. The first is the obvious one: blatant cutting and pasting of someone else's work. This results in a ZERO on the paper and the filing of an academic dishonesty report. The second, more common type of plagiarism is copying and pasting, then changing a few words around. This is also plagarism, and Turn-It-In is really sensitive to it. Several students get caught on this one each quarter. It does not result in a academic dishonesty report. It results is 33% grade reduction for each instance. Just a few catches and you will be at 0. Usually this means an 'F' on the paper, and I am harsh about this. It happens in every class. Don't be the one who does this! But you are reading the syllabus, aren't you? That likely means that you are not going to fall into this second category, right? If you know anyone who didn't read the syllabus, please tell them that Turn-It-In has a hair trigger, and the professor has too many bright students that need mentoring to give time to plagairists who want makeup credit.