Instructions

For the final paper for this course, please submit an essay on the topic of your choosing. The only constraints on content for this assignment are as follows:

• The topic must be relevant to the issues addressed in modules 5 and/or 6.
• Your essay must substantively engage with at least three (3) of the required readings from modules 5 and/or 6.
• You may include outside sources, if appropriate, and you may refer to readings outside modules 5/6, as long as you have satisfied the above criterion. As before, keep in mind that you should not lean too heavily on external sources, insofar as this is a short essay and we are interested in your views on the subject.
• Since there is no specific prompt for this assignment, your thesis statement should be clearly stated near to the start of the paper. It should be obvious to your reader what the topic of your paper is, and what you are arguing.

As with essays 1 and 2, your final submission should be around 1250 words in total (±10%), excluding references.

Your essay submission is subject to the following restrictions:

• Do not include any identifying information in your submission. The essays will be graded anonymously.
  • Note : Including identifying information (name, banner number, etc.) anywhere on your essay or the file name will be sufficient for a penalty of 1 mark on your final grade for essay 3.
• As per the syllabus, you must have completed and obtained 100% on the plagiarism quiz prior to submitting your assignment. If the plagiarism quiz is not submitted, or a score of 100% is not obtained, then your essay submission will not be graded. In this case, the ‘submission date’ of your essay will be counted as the submission date of your plagiarism quiz, and the essay will then be subject to the late penalty policy outlined in the syllabus.
  • Note : You only have to complete the plagiarism quiz once. If you have already completed the quiz and obtained a score of 100%, you do not need to re-take the quiz.
• The final essay should be submitted before 23:59 Atlantic time on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Extensions will only be granted if they are requested at least 24 hours prior to the deadline.
  • Note : You must submit an SDA form in the appropriate dropbox on Brightspace to receive an extension. If you have already submitted two SDA forms this semester, then you will not be granted an extension on this assignment.
  • Note : Late submissions will be subject to the policy for late assignments, outlined on the syllabus: -2 marks (out of 30) per 24-period past the deadline.
• You must submit the assignment through Brightspace. No emailed submissions will be accepted.
• Your essay should be around 1125-1375 words in length.
• Your essay should be submitted in .pdf or .docx format.
• Your essay should be double-spaced with standard formatting (12 point, times new roman or similar font, 1 inch Margins, etc.)
• Any quotations or paraphrases of other people’s ideas must be properly cited.
• A complete and properly-formatted list of ‘works cited’ should be included at the end of the document.
  • Note 1 : the ‘works cited’ does not count toward the word limit.
  • Note 2 : a properly-formatted citation for each of the articles in Modules 5 and 6 are given in the complete reading list on the course web page.
• Your submission should be generally free of grammatical and typographical errors—i.e., you should spend some time editing before you submit. A few minor mistakes will not warrant a deduction in points; however, significant typographical and grammatical errors, which lead to unclarity in exposition, will be penalised according to the rubric (below).
• A rubric for how this essay will be graded has been posted on the Additional Resources section of the course webpage. You should look at it before you begin writing so that you understand how your work is being graded.
• You should take account of the feedback given to you by the TAs from your first and second essays.

A summary of the breakdown of points is given in the table below, but more details are provided in the rubric.