Due date:
April 14, 11:59PM EST. Late submissions will be penalized 3% for each day (including Saturdays and Sundays) that they are overdue. Assignments that are submitted more than seven days after the deadline (i.e., after April 21, 11:59PM EST) will not be accepted, and will receive a 0%..
Length requirements:
1500-2000 words. For every 100 words under or over the word count, papers will be penalized 1%, e.g., a 1395-word paper will incur a 1% penalty, while a 2225-word paper will be levied a 2% penalty.
Submission requirements:
Students should upload their assignment to Sakai as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF (.pdf) document.
Responses submitted by email to the instructors will not be accepted and will be considered late if they have not been uploaded to the submission box on Sakai.
Formatting requirements:
Double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman/Arial/Cambria. Citations should be formatted in APA citation style, with a bibliography or works cited section at the end of their submission. Students unfamiliar with APA citations are encouraged to review the Purdue Online Writing Lab’s manual (Links to an external site.) or avail themselves of an online citation generating service (Links to an external site.).
Submissions should include a cover page that includes student name, number, and course information, along with an appropriate title (e.g.,“Netflix and Chill, Eh?: Video Streaming Platforms and the Future of Canadian Content Regulations”).
Students may use first-person pronouns (e.g., “I,” “my,” etc.) in the course of writing their assignment.
Turnitin:
Students’ submissions will be checked for originality after they have uploaded their assignment, using Turnitin (see the syllabus). By submitting their paper to the dropbox on Sakai, students will have automatically uploaded their papers to Turnitin; they do not have to access the Turnitin site directly, as the anti-plagiarism functionality is built into the dropbox on Sakai. For their paper to be accepted for grading, students must produce a similarity index score lower than 20%. Papers submitted with a score of 20% or higher will not be graded until they are resubmitted with a satisfactory score.
Academic requirements:
Students must cite or refer to at least five (5) academic sources, of which no more than two (2) can be from the course assigned/suggested readings. (Course assigned/suggested readings do not have to be used; all five academic sources can be from outside of the course.) An academic source can include an article from a peer-reviewed journal, a chapter from a text published by a university or scholarly press, etc. If students are unsure as to whether a source can be considered sufficiently academic, they should ask the instructor to confirm its acceptability. Non-academic sources like newspaper articles or blog entries can also be used but will not count towards the minimum number of academic sources that must be included in the paper.
Instructions:
Students are to write a research paper on a chosen theme or topic from the course, establishing a research objective or hypothesis and exploring it using the appropriate tools (e.g., literature review and content analysis) in order to draw conclusions that follow from their research.
Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria (in order of importance):
rigour and attention in pursuing the research objective or hypothesis on the chosen theme or topic and persuasiveness in drawing the conclusions (whether these are definitive or indeterminate) from their research;
relevance, use, and explication of academic sources, that is, how judiciously they choose and faithfully they reconstruct the scholarly literature on the chosen theme or topic, demonstrating that they have undertaken a studied engagement of the course material and/or external scholarship through quotes, paraphrases, etc.;
quality of writing, as reflected both in the attention to proofreading, editing, citations, etc., to limit typographical, grammatical, and other errors, and in the observance of the assignment’s formal and technical requirements, e.g., citation style, spacing and margins, etc.
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