Professional Documents
Culture Documents
M Introduction
Aug. 23 & 25
W Lecture: What is science? and Choosing a Topic.
Sophie’s World (SW), chapters 1-3.
M .No class.
Sept. 6 & 8 W Lecture: Academic Tone
Readings: Chapter 3-4 of the APA Manual
SW, chapters 10-11.
M Library Instruction Session
Sept. 13 & 15
**Meet in the library lobby at 9:30am
W Lecture: Sources and Writing an Annotated Bibliography.
Reading: Chapter 6 and pp. 198-199 of the APA Manual.
*Proposals are due.
Preliminary work (revised proposal and bib.) for midterm paper (10%)
Midterm paper (25%)
Special n/a
Assignments
Remember that attendance, class participation, and classroom
citizenship (see section below) constitutes 10% of your course grade.
Class participation means arriving on time, contributing to
discussions (including the submission of discussion questions), active
Class listening, and peer editing. Bring your textbooks, notebook paper, and
Attendance a pen to each class session.
*If you are unable to attend class, you are responsible for obtaining
the lecture notes from another class member.
*Attendance will be taken during each class session Missing class
will have an adverse effect on your final grade.