Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Final Paper and Presentation Guidelines

Final Paper

The final paper (3-5 pp.; MLA format) is a way for you to engage thoughtfully with the issues and questions we have read about and discussed this semester and to bring together skills in reading, critical thinking, and writing that we have worked on these past few months. You will be presenting your work in a panel with three or four other classmates, responding to comments and questions at the end of the session, and giving constructive criticism to other panel presentations. Hand in your work in front of my office on Thursday, February 28, 2013 and submit a digital copy on Turnitin.com.

Information for initial login to Turnitin.com: (for first time users only. If you have created an account on Turnitin.com and have submitted papers there before, just log in with your e-mail and password on the Turnitin.com homepage and choose our Reading and Analysis course.)

• On the Turnitin.com homepage, click "Create Account" at the top right hand corner.
• On the Create a User Profile page, at the Create a New Account heading, click "student."
• On the Create a New Student Account page, type in the following class ID and password, then provide the user information (Chula recommends using your chula e-mail account) and set up your account password, check that you are over 13 years old, and click "I agree--create profile."
  
• Class ID: 6148251 (This is the class ID for section 1 only.)
  
• Class Enrollment Password: inspection1 (This is the class enrollment password for section 1 only.)
  
• You are now ready to submit your assignments. Click on the Final Paper assignment and follow the instructions to upload your file.
  

Revision

Some things to keep in mind as you proofread and edit your work:

• Does my title show that I have a point to make?

• Is my thesis sound, clear, and interesting?

• Have I supported my thesis with compelling evidence?

• Is the organization of my paper logical and appropriate to the arguments I am making?

• Is my language clear, consistent, and suited to the subject matter?

• Do each of my paragraphs have a clear point and coherence?

• Are my sentences varied, interesting, and effective?

• Do my verbs agree with their subjects? Pronouns with their nouns?

• Is my paper free of spelling mistakes?

• Have I cited my sources properly according to the MLA citation style?

• Does my paper follow MLA format?
  

Final Presentation

Presentations of your final papers will take place on the last two days of class: Monday, February 18, 2013 and Thursday, February 21, 2013. There will be five sessions of four to five papers. Each session will have fifteen to twenty minutes to present (four to five minutes for each panelist) and five to ten minutes to respond to questions and comments from the floor. A moderator will be presiding over the presentations and discussion session of each panel, introducing the speakers, mediating the questions and responses, and making sure things stay on schedule.

A program of the final presentation schedule will be posted on our detailed schedule page once panel and paper titles, speakers and presiding are finalized. You are responsible for e-mailing me your working paper titles and any revisions to them by Sunday, February 17, 2013.

Please inform me of any special equipment needs. Otherwise our usual notebook computer (which uses Microsoft Office 2007) and LCD projector will be provided.

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