Due: Monday, November 3rd with portfolio-NO EXCEPTIONS! Students who do not turn in a paper and a portfolio on this day will fail the semester.
You must put a hard copy in your portfolio and email Mrs. Atkinson an electronic copy.
Requirements:
Paper (100 points)
1. MLA Style
2. 12 point Times Roman font
3. Topic: Chaucer's treatment of women in the "Canterbury Tales" through the characters of Emily, Alisoun, and the Wife of Bath
5. Papers must be no less than 5 and no more than 8 pages of text. Papers less than five pages will receive a zero. I will stop reading papers at 8 pages and papers longer than 8 pages of text will receive a five point deduction per page. Title pages and works cited pages are not text.
6. You must use an MLA cover page due to length of paper.
7. You must use three credible critical articles (one for each character) as sources. Book notes and sites such as 123 Help Me are not credible. You should get these source while you are at Wayne State with Mr. Cooper. You will need them to write this paper.
8. You must properly cite your articles and text in the body of your paper.
9. You must include an MLA works cited page with your three critical article and your text.
10. Grading:
25 points essay conventions (thesis, topic sentences, paragraphing, conclusion)
25 points MLA usage (Cover sheet, parenthetical citations, works cited page)
25 points content: (Content, clarity, staying on topic)
25 points grammar and mechanics: (formal language use, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling)
Portfolio Contents:1. Revised Prologue Paper
2. All Study guides
3. MLA Critique paper
4. Prefaced by a "Table of Contents"
This is due November 3rd with the paper
The Portfolio is worth 100 points:
25 points: Organization
50 points:Presentation and appearance
25 points: Content
Plagiarism, the representation of someone else's words and ideas without documentation or the outright presentation of another person's work as your own is unacceptable. Plagiarized papers will receive a failing grade. Use of unacceptable sources will lower paper grade by 25 points for each unacceptable source used.
The November 3rd due date is firm. Late assignments will be penalized 20 points for each day late. After November 6Th, no more assignments will be accepted and students will receive a zero and fail the class for the term.
Respond to this post to acknowledge that you understand it.
Mrs. Atkinson
Oct 6, 2008
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