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Dr. Debora B. Schwartz English Department, California Polytechnic State University Paper Prospectus and Working Bibliography A Prospectus and Working Bibliography for your Research Paper are due PRIOR TO THE MIDTERM EXAM, and no later than the date indicated on the course Calendar of Assignments. If submitted electronically, please save your prospectus as a .doc file with the filename "[yourlastname]512prospectus.doc" and submit it to me as an email attachment (I do NOT use the "digital dropbox" section of Blackboard). Please do NOT submit your prospectus as a .docx file; use the pulldown "save as" menu and select .doc as the format if the default format of your Word file is .docx rather than .doc. Note that you must have submitted your prospectus BEFORE the midterm exam since I will refer to it when grading the Paper Preview section of your midterm exam. The Prospectus is normally ungraded: if it is submitted on time and it follows these assignment guidelines, it will be used solely for feedback to help you write a stronger final research paper. If however no prospectus is submitted or the prospectus does not fulfill the requirements of the assignment, it will be graded and will count for 10% of your final course grade. In that case, the weight of the research paper will be reduced to 30% of your final grade. (Note: failure to submit a prospectus and working bibliography or to follow assignment guidelines will result in 10% of your final course grade = F.)
The Paper Prospectus should consist of the following components:
The Working Bibliography should provide correct and complete citations for at least eight secondary sources on your topic (the medieval work you are researching). List them alphabetically by author without annotations. Be sure to format bibliographic citations correctly; consult the citation guidelines on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Research Tools (consult your MLA Handbook for fuller details). Each citation should be followed by a parenthetical indication of the mode of access which you used to obtain the resource in question. In choosing your sources, be sure to include at least one of each of the following kinds of sources:
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