- Late submission in class on due date (all submissions after due date require a valid excuse and merits 5 pts deduction per day).
- Poor bibliographic list.
- Bloated bibliographic list (source in list but not in-text/parenthetical).
- Missing in-text citations.
- More than one unnecessary direct quote.
- Uncreative title. Title must be "creative: academic" e.g. An Unlikely Partnership: Critical Implications of the ASEAN Integration"
- Did not follow format.
- Plagiarized work. - Unparaphrased but cited material is plagiarized.
- Work does not fit the required content (argumentative paper must be argumentative, not simply descriptive.).
- Grammatical and composition errors that span across the entire paper.
Online classroom of Ronald Castillo y Maglaqui, Professor of Political Science at the University of Santo Tomas - Faculty of Arts and Letters. But for the time being, starting 2022, this blog serves as a student's public notebook of thoughts while he undertakes his international PhD in Asia Pacific Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Reach him through rmcastillo@ust.edu.ph
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Proscriptions for Paper Writing
Committing the following will merit an automatic zero / 0 for the finals paper:
Friday, September 02, 2016
International Relations: Guidelines for the Research Paper
The papers will be 40% of each of the grading periods (Prelim Grade, and Final Grade).
For Pol 281, International Relations Paper will be a manuscript proposing a basic thesis on the international relations environment.
For Pol 281, International Relations Paper will be a manuscript proposing a basic thesis on the international relations environment.
Your goal is to write a well researched argumentative paper, as original as possible, well supported by facts, and worth presenting at an international conference.
Balance your references with library / non-library sources. Print / non-print sources, web and non-web sources, electronic / non-electronic sources. You don't need to get all of these. Just make sure your references are balanced. E.g. not all are web or all books, only 1 library source.
Don't just download the Rubric. Read it and base your paper on it since the grades will be based on this chart.
How to go about with the paper:
In observing the international world, note what issues exist (based on news, what you read in BBC, CNN, CFR). Pick one that is relevant (currently being debated on, currently affecting many people.). Propose a model to address that issue.
What's a model? It will be an illustration of a theory in it's practical application on a particular issue. Remember that theses are usually generalizable, but for this paper, you will propose a specific, direct, positive statement. E.g. "Model X can solve the Syrian conflict"
Since it's an illustration of a theory. Your proposal will either be based 1) on an existing IR theory (e.g. Machiavelli's tenents in The Prince, Wilson's Speech... etc.) , or 2) based on a currently existing sample or way used in a different place in the world (e.g. the EU, Australia's Migration Policy... etc.)
I want you to illustrate the theory or sample using shapes, lines and arrows from MS Word. Transform the idea into a comprehensible image or diagram. Use colors if necessary. Name the model after the source.
E.g. Richelius' Theory on Embassies , Diagram by Ronald M. Castillo AB Political Science Student
Hence, the Introduction must give a concise background on the issue, identify the actors involved (without sounding enumerative), show the model with a brief background and explanation, propose the thesis argument.
Prove to me in your discussion, how such model will be able to address the issue.
Conclude by giving me a concise affirmation of the thesis and the main points that premised and supported your thesis.
Sample issues: war, peace efforts,
Balance your references with library / non-library sources. Print / non-print sources, web and non-web sources, electronic / non-electronic sources. You don't need to get all of these. Just make sure your references are balanced. E.g. not all are web or all books, only 1 library source.
Technical Reminders:
Use standard paper format. Spacing is double spaced. 6 pages including References. Cover page will have the "1st 3 lines" reuirement and the Rubric. Introduction immediately begins on the next page (which counts as page 1).
Use headings (major and minor).
Use standard paper format. Spacing is double spaced. 6 pages including References. Cover page will have the "1st 3 lines" reuirement and the Rubric. Introduction immediately begins on the next page (which counts as page 1).
Use headings (major and minor).
Sudden death applies.
Each manuscript must have had at least two library references. Support by affixing a UST Benavides Library Check-out receipt stapled to the references page.
Rubric:
Each manuscript must have had at least two library references. Support by affixing a UST Benavides Library Check-out receipt stapled to the references page.
Rubric:
Don't just download the Rubric. Read it and base your paper on it since the grades will be based on this chart.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B30MHtoilXd4NlppMi1kTVlHczQ/view?usp=sharing
Write and review your work.
Write and review your work.
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