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FOLLOWING THESE DIRECTIONS IS ESSENTIAL. TO
ENCOURAGE YOUR DOING SO, REINFORCEMENT THEORY WILL BE APPLIED. IF YOU FOLLOW ALL
THREE DIRECTIONS COMPLETELY, FIVE POINTS WILL BE ADDED TO YOUR PAPER'S
FORMATTING/WRITING GRADE. IF YOU FAIL TO FOLLOW ALL PARTS OF THE THREE
FORMATTING DIRECTIONS, THREE POINTS WILL BE SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR PAPER'S
FORMATTING AND WRITING GRADE FOR EACH DIRECTION NOT FOLLOWED.
1. Title Page should contain:
a. Only your student identification number and your seat
number (only MGT 360 students have seat numbers). Your name should not appear
anywhere in/on the paper nor on the title page of your paper.
b. Time that your class meets.
c. The title of your paper.
1. Pages:
a. The paper should be double-spaced. (Footnotes or
endnotes or bibliography do not count toward the page limit; neither do tables
or the title page.)
b. Margins -- one inch all around. (I measure with a
ruler -- do not trust the margin setting at one inch; you may have to adjust
the margin setting to obtain a true, measurable one-inch margin.)
c. Justification -- full justification (left and right
margins).
d. Type size -- maximum of 12 pt. and a minimum of 10
pt.
e. Number of pages -- conform to the number assigned for
the paper.
3. Proofreading -- the paper should contain no
mechanical errors:
a. The first line of each paragraph is indented one-half
inch.
b. Spacing between paragraphs is the same as spacing
within paragraphs.
c. Spacing between sentences is DOUBLE, not single.
d. All sentences begin with a capital letter
e. All sentences contain a verb.
f.
All sentences end with
the appropriate punctuation.
g. Words are spelled correctly and make sense
grammatically.
In writing the paper, some students
will find the text, lecture notes, and interactive materials are sufficient;
others may elect to do further library or Internet research for additional
material. Your proofreading will be made easier by using spell check and
grammar check (as found in WordPerfect and Word). These programs do a good (but
not perfect) job of assuring that the paper is both correctly spelled and
punctuated and is grammatically correct. The spell check and grammar check
programs not only will analyze your writing for spelling, punctuation, tense
consistency, plural/singular agreements and so forth, but they will also check
those correctly spelled words that make no sense grammatically (e.g., using to
instead of too). However, using spell check and grammar check does
not relieve you of the responsibility for accurately proofreading your paper.
DIRECTIONS FOR
REFERENCING THE PAPER
To avoid plagiarism -- that is, the theft of another writer's or speaker's words, ideas, or thoughts -- authors who use facts, opinions, and statements from outside sources (WHETHER IN DIRECT QUOTATIONS OR BY PARAPHRASING) must acknowledge them in references. Even when you do not quote or paraphrase, but you refer to the work of another (be it a movie, a journal or magazine article, or a book), that work must be properly credited to its source. STUDENTS WHO PLAGIARIZE WILL EARN A ZERO ON THE PAPER. It has been this instructor's experience that although students think they know the rules of referencing, they do not. Consequently, many students receive grades of 0 on their papers. You are strongly advised to use a style manual. Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertation is an excellent style manual. You would do well to use it both to look up the various referencing rules and to help you in learning them. Please keep in mind that while one reason for referencing is to give appropriate credit to the originator of the idea or words, a second reason for referencing is to point the reader to exactly where the idea or words may be found. This reader checks all references.
When referencing a movie, you must give the name of either the director or the producer (last name first), the name of the film (in italics or quotation marks or underlined), the studio which distributed the film, the year in which it was first released, and the approximate time into the movie that the referred-to scene appeared.
References may be:
A. Footnotes (or endnotes): a raised number next to and directly following the borrowed material and a corresponding number and explanation at the foot of the page (or on a page that follows the text of the paper). The first time a work is mentioned in a footnote (endnote), the entry should be in complete form. That is, it should include not only the author's/authors' full name/names (last name first and in the order listed on the work cited), the title of the work, and the specific reference (i.e., volume, if any, and page number) but the facts of publication as well. Once a work has been cited in full, subsequent references to it should be in abbreviated form, but page numbers must always be included.
B. Bibliographic citations: a parenthetical next to and directly following the borrowed material that identifies the work and page by reference to a bibliography. The bibliography, on a page that follows the text of the paper, is alphabetized by the last names of the (first) author of a work and lists the name(s) of author(s) (last name first), full title of work, place, publisher, date of publication, and page numbers when the item is part of a whole work -- a chapter in a book or an article in a periodical. One may identify the work inside the parenthetical citation by author and page or by number and page when the bibliography has been numbered. Dates need not be given within the parenthesis unless more than one work by that author(s) is being referenced in your paper.
Whichever citation format you choose to use, your citation must identify exactly where the material quoted or paraphrased can be found. You must also give citations for those people you interviewed (should you do so); these references must contain the full name of the interviewee (last name first), his/her exact job title, the name of the company for which s/he works, its location, the date of the interview and the person's telephone number.
I. Quotations -- Five or more words taken from another must be placed in quotation marks (or appropriate indentation) and must be referenced. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS REQUIREMENT. (Some students think that definitions do not need quotation marks -- this is false; they do.)
a. Direct quotations should correspond exactly with the originals in wording, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. (See d. below for an exception to this rule.)
b. Short quotations should be incorporated into the text of the paper and enclosed in quotation marks.
c. Longer (block) quotations -- two or more sentences which run to four or more typewritten lines -- should be set off from the text in single spacing and indented in its entirety five spaces from BOTH the left and right marginal lines, with no quotation marks at beginning or end. Double space between the text and the block quotation.
d. Any omission of words, phrases, or even paragraphs in quoted matter is indicated by ellipsis points, which are period dots. There should be a space before each dot and a space also after the last dot if a word follows. Since ellipsis points stand for words omitted from the quotation itself, they are always placed within the quotation marks or block quotation.
EX: "What we require to be taught . . . is to be our own teachers."
II. Paraphrasing -- A full reference -- footnote, endnote, or bibliographic citation -- is also required next to and immediately following the borrowed material that you have either paraphrased or summarized in your own words. Facts and/or assertions taken from class lectures (or other sources) must be referenced. To reference class lecture material give the name of the professor (last name first), the number of the class, the semester in which the class was taken, the college where it was taken, and the date if you have it.
You may use any referencing style you wish as long as your use of it is consistent throughout the paper. As noted above, citations must include author(s) in the order in which they are listed in the work), title of book or article, publisher or journal name (as applicable), date, and page number(s). If you use endnotes or a bibliographic format be sure that the specific page number(s) of the quotation or paraphrase is (are) given. Please note that the American Psychological Association's referencing format is misapplied more frequently than other formats; students are advised against its use. The easiest, and currently most popular, referencing style is the bibliographic format, especially the version that references the bibliography by number and page.
With the exception of the textbook and the movie being used in the course for which you are writing the paper, all materials used must be supplied with your paper. You are expected to make Xerox copies of magazine, journal or newspaper articles (the entire article must be supplied even if you only reference one page of that article) and the pages of a book which contain referenced material. If you use material found on the Internet, you must reference it according to the directions given above and must add to that reference both the http://www address where it was found, the date that you downloaded it, and the page number of the downloaded material that you referenced. If the downloaded article does not have page numbers (most indicate "page one of three" and so forth), you must number them yourself. Again, you must attach to your paper a copy of the entire downloaded article when you submit the paper.
See your student handbook for CSUN's policy on plagiarism.
WRITING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PAPER:
All course requirements, including the paper, are considered "work assignments" (such as those requested by a manager). Sloppiness and incorrectness in grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and/or syllabication are not acceptable in a job's work product -- nor are they acceptable in this class. You are expected to produce a professional work product.
While it is grammatically correct to do so, sophisticated writers do not introduce ideas, facts, or theories by saying:
According to
Lucinda Harper in the Wall Street Journal's "Labor Letter" of
December 14, 1993, "[T]he most underutilized employee benefit in American
is the dependent-care spending account, which allows employees annually to set
aside up to $5,000 of their pay, tax-free, toward child or elder care."
Instead one
says:
According to
Harper, "[T]he most underutilized employee benefit in American is the
dependent-care spending account, which allows employees annually to set aside
up to $5,000 of their pay, tax-free, toward child or elder care."
This paper is not
a book report: therefore you should not present information you have collected
by saying: "Ms. X of the ABC Company, who was interviewed on March 22,
1993 stated. "Rather, you present the information by saying, "Three
of the four firms interviewed did . . . " (One references this type of
statement by saying (See Appendix A or See Table 1.)
Strunk and
White's Elements of Style is an excellent source book for correct
English use.
PRODUCING AN
ACCEPTABLE, POLISHED, AND PROFESSIONAL WORK PRODUCT REQUIRES APPLYING THE
VARIOUS RULES OF ENGLISH. AGAIN, TO ENCOURAGE YOUR DOING SO, REINFORCEMENT
THEORY WILL BE APPLIED. IF YOU MAKE NO ERRORS IN GRAMMAR, WORD SELECTION, OR
PUNCTUATION, FIVE POINTS WILL BE ADDED TO YOUR PAPER'S FORMATTING AND GRAMMAR
GRADE. IF YOU MAKE ERRORS IN GRAMMAR, WORD SELECTION, OR PUNCTUATION, ONE POINT
WILL BE SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR PAPER'S GRADE PER ERROR TYPE. HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE
THAT THREE POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED FOR EACH OF THE ERRORS DISCUSSED BELOW. IN
ADDITION TO POINTS (POSSIBLY) DEDUCTED FOR REFERENCING ERRORS FROM YOUR PAPER'S
GRADE, ADDITIONAL POINTS MAY BE LOST DUE TO FORMATTING PROBLEMS AND GRAMMAR,
WORD SELECTION, SYLLABICATION, AND PUNCTUATION ERRORS .
GENERAL GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED ARE:
A. Writing in the plural when referring to people avoids
the awkwardness of s/he, he/she, him/her, or his/hers. (Please see #1 under
specific errors to be avoided.)
B. Avoid ending a sentence with a preposition when
possible.
Common prepositions
are: about, against, amid, among, at, atop, between, by, down, for, from, in,
into, of, off, out, over, through, throughout, to, toward, under, up, upon,
with, and within. (This list is not exhaustive -- when in doubt, use a dictionary.
Avoid using double
prepositions -- e.g., off of, in on, etceteras.
C. Get -- the most overused verb in the English language
-- it means to gain possession of, to receive as a return, to obtain, to catch,
to prepare, to seize, to overcome, to irritate, to cause, to understand, to
deliver -- use these synonyms rather than 'get.'
D. Go -- the next most overused verb in the English
language -- it means to move, to proceed, to leave, to depart, to follow a
procedure, to pass, to elapse, to break, to fare, to succeed, to apply oneself,
to intend, to run -- it definitely does not mean to speak, to talk, or
to orate -- again, use sparingly.
SPECIFIC ERRORS
TO BE AVOIDED (THREE POINT LOSS):