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Internal Assessment
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˜ An Overall View of the Paper:

a) Logical Progression of Arguments

b) Keeping Track and focus
c) Modify as new information trickles in
d) Versions of Outline (Outline 1, 2 etc). DO
NOT discard earlier versions
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˜ An Answer to a Question or Problem

˜ Single Sentence: Formulates both topic and
your point of view
˜ Your hypothesis to the central question
˜ Will help to see where you are heading
˜ Try out different possibilities
˜ Revise TS if need be
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˜ Purpose: Description? Explanation? Argue?

Persuade Reader?
˜ Audience: Specialist? Some likely to
Agree/Disagree?
˜ Assistance of Instructor
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˜ Accumulate Research into logical, fluent and

effective paper
˜ Part of Portfolio
˜ Check Supporting Documents
˜ Delete Irrelevancies that may weaken your
argument
˜ Resist Temptation to USE EVERYTHING



˜ åring Related Material Together and make

sub headings and sections²LOGICALLY
˜ Plan an Effective Introduction and
Conclusion-with respect to the sequencing


 

˜ Chronology : (historical discussion²e.g. how

did the Romantic Movement developed)
˜ Cause & Effect: (e.g. The Consequence a
scientific discovery will have)
˜ Process: (e.g. how a certain issue or text got
prominence)
 

˜ Deductive Logic: moves from general to the

specific (e.g. from the problem of violence
involved in religious fomentation to violence
during Partition)
˜ Inductive Logic: from specific to general
(obverse)
˜ Integrating the quotations and sources in
preliminary
˜ Use of Word Processors
   

˜ Clarity and Readability of Content

˜ Command of Sentence Structures
˜ Mechanics of Writing: capitalization, punctuation
˜ Avoid language that imply unsubstantiated or
irrelevant generalizations
˜ Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
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˜ Styles: MLA, APA, Chicago

˜ Heading: Works Cited/åibliography/Literature
Cited
˜ End of Paper (continue page numbers from text)
˜ Page Numbers: upper right hand corner
˜ Centre Title
˜ Double space between title and first entry
˜ Each entry from left margin & double space
˜ Hanging Indent: If entry runs more than one line
 
 

˜ Alphabetically arrange entries, åegin from authors

surname followed by comma and her name
˜ Hardboard, Janet. The Evolution of Films.
Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Print
˜ åakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four
Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson
and Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P 1981. Google
åook Search. Web. 3 Dec. 2007
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˜ Give the name in the first entry only

˜ Thereafter in place of name: type 3 hyphens,
followed by a period and the Title.
˜ Tannen, Deborah. Taking Voices: Repetition,
Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse.
New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
---. You¶re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and
Daughters in Conversation. New York: åallantine ±
Random. 2006. Print.
 

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˜ Author¶s Name
˜ Title of Article (in quotation marks)
˜ Name of the Periodical (italicized)
˜ Series Number or Name
˜ Volume Number
˜ Issue Number (if available)
˜ Date of Publication (year)
˜ Inclusive Page Numbers
˜ Medium of Publication consulted
˜ Supplementary Information (if relevant)
 
 

˜ Piper, Andrew. µRethinking the Print Object:

Goethe and the åook of Everything.´ Ô




 121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print.
˜ Journal Using Only Issue Numbers:
˜ Kafka, åen. ³The Demon of Writing:
Paperwork, Public Safety, and the Reign of
Terror.´ 
 
 98 (2007): 1-24.
Print.


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˜ Jeromack, Paul. ³This Once, a David of the

Art World Does Goliath a Favor.´ Œ   

  13 July 2002, late ed. : å7+. Print.
˜ Varadrajan, Siddharth. ³Maoists Deliver and
the Government åetter Find a Smarter Way.´
Hindu 24 August 2010, natl. ed.: 7+. Print.
˜ Others: Abstract, Anonymous Article, Letter
to the Editor. Serialized Article, Special Issue
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˜ Sometimes unlike print: reprinted works,

broadcasts/podcasts, live performances
˜ Multiple databases+ variety of interfaces
˜ IMP to record: Date of Access & Publication
data
˜ Where one work stops and another begins?
˜ How do you define a website, for example?
˜ URL as supplementary info, not main
˜ Name of the
author/compiler/editor/director/performer/narrator/translator
˜ Title of the Work (italicized if independent)
˜ Title of Overall Website (italicized)
˜ Version of Edition Used
˜ Publisher or sponsor of the site
˜ Date of Publication (day-month-year)
˜ Medium of Publication (web)
˜ Date of Access (day-month-year)
˜ Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick and Joseph
Viscomi, eds. The William ålake Archive. Lib.
Of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov.
2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
˜ http://rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/wc_web/hand
outs/MLa_Style.pdf
˜ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/7
47/01/