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Senior Research Project

Below is the schedule for the week, with a description of each assignment:

  • Tuesday - Title Page and Abstract (10 pts) - example
    • should include a title that is related to your topic
    • your name and my name
    • the course and date
    • abstract - a summary of your entire paper (about 50 words)
  • Wednesday - Annotated Bibliography (50 pts) - example
    • a citation for each source, followed by a brief (3-5 sentence) "annotation"
    • include a reference to both the reliability and relevance of the source
  • Thursday - Interview Letter (50 pts) - example
    • use "full block" style - aligned left
    • one body paragraph on the interview subject - who, why him/her, when, where
    • one body paragraph related to the material used in your paper
    • ALSO bring your combined draft for workshop
  • Friday - Final Draft DUE (200 pts)
    • your report of at least 1500 words, bound in a cover of some sort
    • copy of rubric inside the front cover
    • copy of all sources cited in the paper
    • file sent to my email by end of school day

 Reminder: the late penalty for all work is 10 points per day. 

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