Submitting Your Essay + Deflation

You are supposed to hand in your essay before the lecture tomorrow. For those who cannot make it, I provided an option of submitting essays in the tutorial.

Regardless, we will have a tutorial tomorrow. I will take attendance. Let’s say you couldn’t attend the lecture and the tutorial. Then you have to drop your essay to the Division of Social Sciences (Ross Building, 7th floor). Do this at your own risk: the
secretaries may see your essay only on Monday and stamp that day on your paper. In that case, you would be three days late and lose six percentile points.

I want you to think about deflation: general decrease in prices. That’s what’s going on in Europe at the moment. Prices go down, as recession continues. The commonsensical idea is that it is always good for people when prices go down. Is this always the case?

See you tomorrow.

This graph is taken from The Economist Espresso App.

Citation Style: Use APA or MLA

As I said today in the class, you can either use APA or MLA citation style. I am not accepting any other citation format. I prefer APA but MLA is O.K., too.

Check you Foundations book. It has a great chapter on these two citation styles.

Alternatively, you can check out the internet. I find Cornell University’s webpage useful. For APA style guide click here, for MLA click here. Elma found a great source: Here is the link. And this is from OWL‘s website. These are equally good.

You are required to have a title page. All citation styles often have their own title page. Although I am asking for APA and MLA style for citations, you are not required to follow a specific format for the title page. As long as you write your name, title of your essay, my name and the tutorial information, and course information in the title page, that’s fine.

However, if you are interested, this is a good video on APA style cover page.

Plan (November 28, 2014)

Hi all,

Below is the plan for tomorrow. As indicated below, we will talk about the essay assignment. As you know, you need to find and use two secondary academic sources for this assignment. Bring your sources to the tutorial, if you are concerned that your sources may not be academic. I can help you.

Don’t forget: You are required to complete Spark module on academic integrity at http://www.yorku.ca/spark/academic_integrity/index.html

Plan // November 28, 2014

1. Housekeeping (10 – 15 min)  10 min

Attendance, reflection papers

2. Writing skills (30 – 45 min.) 70 min (See below for a detailed plan of this section.)

3. Essay Assignment (30 – 45 min)   20 min.

If have time, we will cover Williams and Conrad. Please come prepared.

Plan of November 28, 2014 Tutorial (part 2)

• How to Find Academic Resources
  • York University Library
  • Google Scholar
• Referencing
  • What is Plagiarism?
  • Humanities (MLA) Style    Study this in your own time
  • Social Sciences (APA) Style
• Planning and Pre-Writing Stage
  • Journey 1: From Gathering Data to an Outline
    1. Collect
    2. Process
    3. Organize
    4. Outline + Working thesis + “Shitty” Introduction
• Writing Stage
  • Journey 2: From an Outline to a Revised Paper
  • Waiting for Your Muse (or that famous writer’s block)
  • A suggestion: Split screen: Outline on the left, essay on the write
    • Use outline view in MS Word
  • Building paragraphs
    • Topic sentence
    • Paragraph development
      1. Definition, explanation, illustration
      2. Providing evidence
      3. Providing analysis
      4. Introductory and concluding paragraphs: V method and ^ method.
    • Quotations
  • Write and Revise!
  • Some techniques
    • Read only the first sentences of each paragraph. Does it make sense? Does it tell it a story. It should.
    • Repeat the same words? Use the Thesaurus. Ms Word has it.
    • Zero tolerance for tipos 🙂

Essay 1 Guidelines

Click here to view and download the essay guidelines.

Let me highlight few points:

1. Essays must include a title page and bibliography.
2. Must start with a comprehensive introduction which includes
   1. The position the author takes on the key question
   2. Your thesis
   3. An explanation of how your essay will be organized
3. Essays must have a clear paragraph structure, each starting with a clear topic sentence.
4. Formatting: essays must have a 12 point font with 2.5cm margins and DOUBLE SPACED (6 to 8 pages = 1500-2000 words)
5. Students should do the following two ‘modules’. From the course outline, p. 3:
   1. You are required to complete the SPARK module on Academic Integrity at: http://www.yorku.ca/spark/academic_integrity/index.html
   2. You are required to complete the SPARK module on selecting sources at: http://www.yorku.ca/spark/books_journals_more/index.html

Again, the full guide is here to view and download.