Junior Thesis Final Draft Requirements

Junior Thesis—Final Draft Your typed, first draft of your thesis is due Friday, May 22. We will peer edit on that day. Your revised (second) draft is due Tuesday, May 26. Between your peer review and your final draft you give me, there will be time to conference individually with me in class. I want everyone to meet with me before the final draft is due. The following are a few basic requirements for the paper: 1. You must have a minimum of 3 secondary sources (criticism.) These sources must come from reputable publications (typically university presses or other similar presses or journals.) Quote at least twice from each source. Include these sources on your works cited page. 2. You are required to use a minimum of 3 of your author’s novels. Quote at least three times from each novel. Include these novels as sources on your works cited page 3. The paper’s length is 7 to 10 pages double-spaced. You must include a title, a works cited page, a header, and pagination. You should use MLA documentation style. 4. You will automatically receive and F if you plagiarize. This means if you use somebody else’s words and claim them as your own (whether you intend to or not—“forgetting” to note that you are using someone else’s words is still plagiarism.) NOTE: whether you’ve paraphrased or used somebody else’s words verbatim, you have plagiarized. You not only risk receiving an F on the paper, but you will also risk losing credit in this class. If you attempt to retrieve a paper off the Internet, I will know. This is also an act of plagiarism and will be treated as such. 5. Any paper neither typed nor spell-checked and proofread will not be graded. It will be returned to the owner for completion and ultimately lower your final grade. If I notice common and easily correctible mistakes, such as the misuse of “there” for “their” or “its” for it’s, I will return your paper ungraded to you as well.