The paper will follow a commonly used format for writing college papers ( APA)
It will be four typed pages of writing.
You must have additional pages for citations, titles or charts as needed.
This paper will be written on a topic of your choosing but must be relevant for this class.
The course is titled Afrx-Latinx: Race, Culture, and Transnationalism and your
paper should be on these issues. I want to encourage you all to use ideas,
theories, and concepts from academic sources to make your argument in your
paper.
1. This paper must reflect an argument. This typically, but not exclusively, must
follow an academic logic of XàY or X is correlated/causes/creates/impacts Y.
Without this logic your paper is merely a summary of existing reading.
2. Only use academic sources. This is limited to university press books
(ex. New York University Press, Texas A&M University Press, University of North
Carolina University Press) and academic journals (ex. American Sociological
Review, Criminology, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies). I recommend only
using our library search engines to find appropriate sources. JSTOR is a good
place to start because you can refine your search to specific disciplines and
topics very easily and every source you find with this search engine is
acceptable for this class. I am very strict about sources and will penalize you significantly for a non-academic source. If you do not use any appropriate sources
you will not receive a passing grade on this assignment.
3. Paper argumentation and organization are crucial for this assignment. Make
sure your main argument is supported by academic citations and
“sub-arguments” that prove your aspects of your main argument. Be sure to
provide me with a clear argument at the beginning of the paper with the
appropriate “writing sign posts” that let me know where you’re headed
throughout the paper.
Do not use news articles, blogs, think tank reports, reports from non-governmental agencies or private industry to name a few. If you want to use a government report it must be from the federal level not state, county, or city and I must approve it ahead of time.
