Social Science 3A: Final Paper Your final paper is built up around the various components of you as ...
Social Science 3A: Final Paper Your final paper is built up around the various components of you assembled throughout the course. As you’ve done various components of the work, the final version has you assembling for use. Below each section, I note where you can look back to because you’ve already begun the vast majority of these parts, now it’s assembling, expansion, and editing. For your final paper, you will need to submit a document that contain the following sections. These should be formatted generally in APA styleLinks to an external site.: Double-spaced Size 12 font Times New Roman Hanging indent/alphabetical references list A cover page remember to do the correct running head style Page numbers Make sure your name is on the first page Regarding length: I'm less concerned with a specific word count than I am about thoroughness. You have 5 articles you're using. Since they're helping to build out what we know on your topic, 2-4 pages. The intro is somewhere between 1/2 and 1 page. And the hypothesis section is 1/4 to a 1/2 page in length. This gives you a rough idea but content is more important than just having your paper be a certain length. Paper structure Simple Introduction Your introduction should introduce the reader to the general aspects of your topic. In this, I want you to present that topic you’ve been interested in, noting a research question and the logic/reasoning that you’re interested in this topic. Additionally, you must include a point drawn from either one of the data sites presented in the earlier weeks (maybe something you found using the GSS data in Week 9 or possibly from Pew Research or a similar organization) or from a trustworthy news source that gives some insight into the scale of the problem that you’re interested in. For example, if your paper is about college drinking, you’d want some sort of basic statistic that says what percent of college students drink (or, you could even fine tune it a bit further and do what percent of college students binge drink). This is so your reader/audience can understand and draw a sort of why is this an important topic. Make sure this is cohesive enough that the next section. Basic items from earlier weeks to use as the basis here: Project Idea (I attached below) Literature For this, you will need a total of five academic, peer-reviewed articles (note: you may have already found 3, so you’ll just expand on them as you find two more!). For these five articles, they can address the variables you’re interested in varying amounts. So, you could have two articles about race, only one on gender, and two on age. Literature provides a general overview of what we know about a topic so that we can use that information to inform ourselves about what we will expect about the world. In this section, you are presenting the general facets of what you've now learned about your topic. You're needing to make sure that you One major way to structure this is for your literature review is to think about the primary sections: what are the key aspects we need to know about this topic in relation to how you're thinking about it: you get to draw attention to the specific information that you have found most useful, which can even mean making the sections focus specifically on the variables. Hypotheses The last items that I want you to develop in this are a set of three hypotheses built from the literature. So, you’ve already spent some time on your articles and thinking about your topic and variables over the week. You’re going to end the components of this by articulating specific hypotheses from the literature you just assembled that would guide your own research. You don’t need to go into heavy or long explanations on this but the when your reader/audience sees your hypotheses, the annotations they just read should prime them on these. Basically, do these hypotheses connect to the annotations that I just read or do they seem to come out of left field. Basic items from earlier weeks to use as the basis here: The Importance of Getting the Hypotheses Right Conclusion A standard conclusion: restates paper's purpose, key takeaways, and can address what would be nice to do next (maybe include other variables, different contexts, etc.). References And, finally, a full references list that is correctly formatted. Remember, this will have six entries (your five articles and the background source from your introduction). Rubric Final Paper Final Paper Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormatting 20 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 20 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction 50 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 50 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLiterature Review 120 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 120 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeHypotheses 45 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 45 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusion 20 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 20 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeReferences, Writing, etc. 20 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 20 pts Total Points: 275 Presentation: Since your presentation is based upon the paper, it's a matter of transforming information you will likely already have into this different medium. The presentation does not require any additional information or sources. Note: you will not be graded on the slides as their own assignment. Rather, you will be presenting the slides; simply submitting slides without a presentation will result in 0 points on this assignment! Aim for your presentation to be 5 to 8 minutes You're welcome to use any program you'd like for making/recording your video. Many students also have used PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, or any other program they like. Zoom has actually become pretty useful because it defaults to creating a smaller file size, so it'll be easier to upload. In Zoom, if you click "Share Screen" go to the advanced option and select "Slides as Virtual Background." It may load in other slide types but I know it works with PowerPoint slides. You can have your camera off. I recommend saving it to your own computer rather than the cloud because it just needs to process and is then ready. Zoom might be the easiest to create file and have it ready to upload in a decent file size. Importantly: use whichever system you are most comfortable with! Don't wait until the last minute to upload the presentation. Since video files can be large, they're not as quick. Good presentations are skill unto themselves. Undoubtedly, we’ve all watched a presentation or lecture where the person has slides so overly crowded with information that we are stuck trying to listen, read, and write simultaneously and doing all of them poorly. This presentation is on your paper. You are presenting the paper as well as creating a video of it as well. Remember: a key distinction of a presentation from a paper is that in a presentation a majority of the content is spoken. Do not just copy/paste your whole paper onto slides. Your presentation must contain the following, minimum slides: Title Slide Background Slide This should introduce the topic and present what you’re specifically interested in understanding Body Slides These slides should give some thematic focus. You will give short summaries on the slides and lecture over them, going more in-depth to guide your audience Hypotheses Since you’ve read literature to help you understand your topic better, generate key hypotheses that you’d build from this literature. This highlights your ability to apply the literature you’ve read abstractly Conclusion Slide A summative point and idea on what you’d want to expand the literature to References Slide Full citations for all references in APA format An example of the presentation slides with notes about content.Download An example of the presentation slides with notes about content. Rubric Rubric Rubric Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeTitle 7 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 7 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBackground 10 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBody 20 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 20 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeHypotheses 10 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusion 8 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 8 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeReferences 5 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 5 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLink/Overall YuJa Presentation 15 pts Full Marks 0 pts No Marks 15 pts Total Points: 75 Previous
