Important Note: if your Research Proposal has not been APPROVED, this step will not be graded.
The outlilne and annotated sources can be turned in up to one week late and be penalized 10% (5 points--not a horrible hit), but if it is more than a week late, it will earn no points, and it will still have to be turned in with the Research Paper, or I will not grade the Research Paper. That would be horrible.
why are these due a before the finished paper?
A finished Research Paper is done in steps. In the early stages you are ogranizing, planning what you need to include in your paper to support your thesis (argument), gathering information, reading that information, taking notes. Based on the notes you have, you should get a sense of you need to add or subtract from your original plan, and based on your plan, you should be able to see if you need to gather even more information to fill in any parts that are still missing.
Your outline is that plan. Your annotated sources are those readings with your notes on (or possibly transcripts you type up from films you watch, etc.). You need them before you start drafting the final paper because the plan may need to change; you may need more (or different) readings/sources.
again, read all of these instructions carefully; this step is not hard, but there are very specific instructions to follow
the outline
This needs to be typed in MLA format. It must be a formal sentence outline (review the lectures, and look at the Sample Outline on Etudes > Resources > Essay Assignments > Research Paper). It should be about two-full pages double spaced; if it is shorter, it is probably not specific enough to show what points and examples you will be including. I prefer that it be double spaced.
As with so many format-bound things, the standards are really picky. Be sure to get the indentation correct as you go from major topic to sub-topic. As you shift to those sub-topic to sub-sub-topics, be sure you are going from Roman numerals to upper-case letters to Arabic numerals and so on (again, just look at the lecture material on Formal Sentence Outline and at the sample).
if you need even more information, look here: Instructions on how to do a Formal Sentence Outline) NOTE: this site has information on lots of types of outlines; for our class, look at the Formal Sentence Outline on page 5 of the document; also note that this example is single spaced; you have the option of single or double spacing your two-page+ outline (double spacing means you will not have to type as much)..
Be sure that when you break a major topic into sub-topics, you have at least two sub-topics (or you haven't REALLY broken it down). Also, be sure it is clear how items on the outline show the development of your argument, how the items support your overall thesis. Finally, be sure every item on your outline is a complete sentence.
Once you have your outline done, save it as a Word (.doc, .docx or .rtf) or .pdf file, and you will send it to me (but I will explain submitting this in just a little bit). For now, just be sure you save it somewhere on your computer where you will be able to find it quickly.
the annotated sources
These can come in different sorts.
Traditional annotations of printed works is not new to you; we've been annotating (I hope) since Lectures 1 and 2, since you saw the annotations on "In New Mexico" and several other works. If you have print sources, do not mark them up (unless you own them); instead, photocopy the pages you are using, and mark up the photocopies. Make notes, highlight, underline, comment on where things will go in your final paper or match them to the outline.
Make sure you have some pretty thorough annotatations. I want to see how you are interpreting and how you will use your sources, and this also insures that nobody can say you plagiarized. You did the research, and you will acknowledge your sources :)
Then what do you do with them?
If you have a scanner, scan them. If you have a smart phone, take a photo of them and upload the .jpg files to your computer.
Sources from the Web will probably be easiest to copy into Word documents and highlight or put marginal notes, but you can print them out, mark up the printouts, and once again scan or photograph them as .jpg files.
Lectures, YouTube videos, DVD's, shows you saw on television, podcasts--these sorts of things have to be transcripted (that is, you need to type up notes for each one). Most of the notes will be summary of what you saw/heard. You may have a few direct quotations (put them in quotation marks on your transcript). Put the actual source information somewhere near the beginning or end of each transcript, and just save these as Word (.doc, .docx or .rtf) or .pdf files.
Again, save everything in some spot on a flash drive or on your computer where you will be able to find it easily.
samples
To see a sample (partial) outline and two sample annotated sources, check out Etudes > Resources > Essay Assignments > Research Paper.
ok, submitting the outline and the annotated sources
You will send me an e-mail. Be sure your name and the class and the assignment are mentioned in the e-mail so I can keep track of which class this goes with (I have a lot of classes).
Then start attaching files. First attach your outline (you saved it somewhere as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf file). Then start attaching the annotated sources. You may have a couple of transcripts (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf files) that you attach, and you may have a few scanned or photographed .jpg files that you attach. If you have six sources (some people do), then you would attach seven files of various types (the outline and six annotated sources).
NOTE on E-mail upper limits: Ideally, you will be able to send one e-mail with all of your files attached, but some e-mail software will only allow you to send a certain amount of data (varies by provider) per each e-mail. If you try to send half a dozen files, and that exceeds capacity, then you may have to send a few e-mails back-to-back. If so, please, in the subject line of your e-mail, put something like, "Outline and Annotated Sources 1," "Outline and Annotated Sources 2," and so on. That way I will be able to keep track of and give you credit for all of your files.