L3
British civilization. Research paper instructions 2015
Reminder then : each L3 student has four marks:
the DST you just had, the oral mark from a presentation in class, the final
exam in week fourteen, and the “mini-research paper”.
Each student
in the “régime général” will choose one of the subjects below to write a
research paper on.
- The
research paper must be handed in on paper by the 11th May, in my pigeon hole, and also by email at john.mullen@wanadoo.fr. (formats doc, docx, odt, rtf only).
- The
research paper will be 1500 - 1600 words in length, in addition to the
bibliography.
- The
bibliography must contain at least seven books and five websites. They must be
listed according to the normal rules for bibliographies. Although it can be
very useful to read articles from wikipedia as background information, these
articles may change every day, and therefore cannot be cited in a bibliography
or a footnote.
- Websites
should be cited with a short description of what they are ("official
Conservative party website", "campaign website of influential
antiracist campaign", etc.) It should be clear why you have chosen the
books and websites you use: the impression should not be given that they were
just the first five you came across.
An essential
resource is http://scholar.google.fr/schhp?hl=en which
allows you to search university articles, some of which are available free
online.
Don’t forget the University Library
database at http://bibliotheque.u-pec.fr/ This also includes many articles
you can download even when you are at home.
-
Handwritten work is not allowed. The research paper must be printed, and must
use correctly the normal rules of layout for university work (footnotes,
italics etc). There will be no spelling mistakes, as students will use
automatic spellcheck programmes.
The layout
you should use is available here (only the first seventeen pages are
important): http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_1.pdf
- Extreme
care must be used to avoid plagiarism. If you use more than five words together
from another source without saying where it comes from, this counts as copying.
- We will
not be studying these subjects in any great detail in class. I will however put
some links on my Teaching Blog to help you out a little. The address is
http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/
- Your
research paper must reflect the fact that historians have different opinions.
It should avoid simply giving a list of events, but should evaluate their
importance.
- The
research paper may be illustrated, if the illustrations add something to the
argument (the same old pictures of Margaret Thatcher or Harold Wilson are not
interesting).
Choose ONE
of these subjects
A) The
history of religious practice in Britain from 1945 to 2010 is not only a
history of decline, but also of diversification.
B) Did
Thatcherism end in 1990?
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