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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

L3 British civilization. Research paper instructions 2015

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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