Select one of the following topics
for your term paper:
1. Analyze an issue of gender discrimination against women in contemporary Chinese
culture.
Requirements on the Term Paper:
Your term paper will require careful research on a subject to form
your argument/thesis statement. It will have 1,500-2,000 words (8-10 pages, double-spaced), Times New Roman, Font
12 double-spaced.
Requirements on the Sources
for your Research: Authoritative and reliable
sources are crucial
for the success of your research project. You need to consult two to three authoritative academic sources,
such as peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles or book chapters, like the
assigned reading materials for this course.
Most Web sources, such as newspapers, magazines, personal blogs,
etc., are prohibited. Here are a few
authoritative Web sources: https://plato.stanford.edu; http://www.iep.utm.edu;
britannica.com. Students are encouraged to ask the reference librarian at the
Killam for recommendations.
Requirements on the Formatting:
All written work should be prepared according
to the convention of scholarly writing. Assignments should follow the MLA formatting. They
must:
– Be formatted
appropriately (1″ margins,
12-point Times New Roman font,
double-spaced, numbered pages)
–
Be rigorously checked
for spelling and grammar
–
Include a title,
your name, student
number, the course
title, and the professor’s name.
– Provide citations
for all sources
and quotations. – Include a complete bibliography at the end, including only works cited in the
paper.
Please consult the website https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ for MLA/APA formatting and style guide.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_g uide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
Format for In-Text citations: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_g uide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
Some examples
of plagiarism:
Failure to attribute authorship when using sources such as written
or oral work, computer codes/programs, artistic or architectural works, scientific projects, performances, web page designs, graphical representations,
diagrams, videos, and images.
Downloading
all or part of another’s work from the Internet and submitting it as one’s own.
The use of a paper prepared
by anyone other than the individual claiming
to be the author. Plagiarism is committed when you do not
acknowledge using someone else’s words or phrases, ideas or thoughts, term
paper recording images, computer code experiment results, lecture content
falsified data, citations or other text OR your own previously submitted work.
Plagiarized materials can come from books, journal articles, CD encyclopedias,
web pages, online term papers, emails or listservs, talks or lectures (https://www.dal.ca/dept/university_secretariat/academic-integrity/plagiarismcheating.html)