Freshman+Research+Paper

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FRESHMAN RESEARCH PAPER 2013 Final Research Papers are due at the beginning of class on Friday June 7th. Late papers will lose one letter grade per day they are late.Absence on June 7th does not excuse you from this due date. Papers of students who have not submitted a rough draft for peer editing or my review will not have their papers accepted on June 7th. Students must hand in all of the following in their manilla folder. Failure to include these materials/or the folder will have academic consequences. 1. final draft that meets all criteria on the assignment sheet and rubric including the bibliography. The final draft must also be in your google folder  2. rough draft used in peer editing  3. outline must be on easybib or in googledocs shared folder  4. peer edit sheet  5. rubric Link to assignment - must be logged in to Sharon GoogleDocs to access:  [|Freshman Research Assignment]   [|Research Paper Outline Template]   [|Research Paper Outline Guidelines]   [|Research Paper: Final Steps] UPDATE 5/20 : We have completed the research portion of the paper and are now headed into the second phase which includes outlining, writing the rough draft and completing a polished finished paper. Please click on the link or pdf below for detailed information and instructions regarding expectations and due dates for this phase of the project.

Due Dates : **__ Step One __** : Friday 5/10 __**Steps Two and Three**__: Will happen in class on Friday 5/10 __**Step Four**__: Will happen in class on Monday 5/13 for green Tuesday 5/14 for yellow and Wednesday 5/15 for blue. Students who do not finish in class are responsible for completing their bibliographies at home. __**Steps Five and Six:**__ Will begin in class on Wednesday or Thursday 5/15 or 5/16. Students will have 2 days of computer lab time to work on this part of the assignments. Students who do not finish in class will be responsible for completing their notecards at home by 5/20 for Yellow and 5/21 for Blue and Green __**Steps 7 and 8**__: Students will have one day of computer lab time to work on refining their thesis statements and developing their outlines on 5/20 or 5/22. Outlines are due on 5/22 for YELLOW  and 5/23 for BLUE and GREEN __**STEP 9**__: Rough drafts of research papers are due in class for peer editing on Wednesday 5/29. Students will need to complete this task on their own. Rough drafts must be written in googledocs and be placed in the world history folder, They may not be submitted on googledocs. A hard copy must be printed out for class on 5/29. It will be their only homework during the time period from 5/23-5/29. __**STEP 10**__: Final papers are due in class on Friday 6/7. They must be printed out. NO PAPERS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED ON GOOGLE DOCS.