Due Date:
Project Proposal Grade:
2. Annotated Bibliography:
a. What is an annotated bibliography?
A list of citations to books, articles, and documents,
followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive
and evaluative paragraph, the annotation, informing the
reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the
sources cited. The citations have the appropriate
bibliographic format.
b. What is the process?
Due Date:
Annotated Bibliography grade:
3. Research essay:
a. Write a paper arguing, explaining, theorizing, or exploring your
research topic.
b. The paper must be between 6 and 8 pages, no longer-no shorter
(excluding your works cited page)
c. The paper will be scored in the following areas: purpose;
content; organization; feel; tone; sentence structure;
word choice, grammar, spelling, and writing mechanics;
length; use of references (resource binder); quality of
references; and APA/MLA format. (See attached rubric from
Purdue for score breakdown.)
d. You must use all 10 sources in your essay. Either quote them or
cite within the actual essay, not only on the works cited page.
Due Date:
Research Essay grade:
4. Presentation:
It is not uncommon for professors to require a presentation of your
research. Presenting your research also gives helps you to identify
what information is most important and interesting, without boring
your audience.
a. You will make a Keynote/PowerPoint/Prezi presentation with 12-16
slides, no more-no less.
b. You not actually be presenting these presentations to the class so
you will be required to include presentation/lecture notes on the
slides.
c. You will be scored in the following areas: organization; subject
knowledge; graphics; research; screen design; spelling,
Due Date:
Presentation grade:
5. Conference Board:
The final step is to prepare for a possible conference presentation. At
large scale conferences very few participants orally present their
research. Accepted participants will create a conference board of their
research.
a. The board, with less space than your PowerPoint, must contain
the most important aspects and findings of your research and be
visually appealing. In other words, the board must attract
attention, keep your viewer interested, and speak for itself.
b. The average time that a viewer will look at your poster will be 60
seconds; therefore, your poster will be evaluated using NC
States 60 second poster evaluation rubric (attached). Your
poster will be scored in the following areas: overall
appearance; white space; text/graphics balance; text
size; author identification; research objective; main
points; and summary.
Due Date:
Poster grade:
Other important notes:
1. The turn-in method for each assignment varies so be sure to play
attention to your instructor.
2. If you are instructed to turn the assignment in via dropittome:
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3. While you can record the majority of research grade on this document,
other participation grades will also be averaged into the final grade.
4. Keep this packet for the duration of the assignment. I will NOT supply
you with another one. In fact, store it in your research binder!
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