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What should we do?
But it might help to know
Why hasn't it been done already?
And then we can ask
How should we do it?
And then, maybe, we actually will.
| Category | Method of evaluation | Assignment | Due | Value |
| Facts, Concepts | We will average the percentage of your weekly readings into a single numerical score and grade it on a curve in line with the distribution of paper grades. | Weekly in-class quizzes. | Every week in section | 20% |
| Application, Writing | We will grade papers for responsiveness to question, quality of thesis statement, argument, evidence, organization, and grammar and syntax! See more on how we grade. | Interview Paper | Week 6 (your section between February 16-19) | 15% |
| Policy Analysis Paper | Week 10 (your section between March 23-26) | 15% | ||
| Site Assessment Group Project | Presentation in section, Week 14 (April 13-16) Presentation of selected projects in main lecture, Week 14 (April 19-20) (1/4th of total project grade) Submission of final paper, Week 16, (April 26) | 40% | ||
| Attendance Attention and Participation | We will note your absences and evaluate your responsiveness in classroom discussion | Attend and participate in every class. | All semester long | 10% |
| Engagement | Pass/fail | Complete at least two (2) passport items | Last day of classes (April 26) | --- |
| Overall | You must complete all assignments by the final day of classes in order to pass the course. | 100% | ||
Paper Content and Style. Papers will be marked and graded as if this were an English class. If you are having problems, please take the opportunity to talk with me about possible remedies and we will do whatever we can to help. You can find on-line guides to writing in the English language at the Grammar and Style resources website and at Wayne's Academic Success Center on the second floor of the Undergraduate Library. There is also a very good website called "The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing" which is a companion to Michael Harvey's book of the same name, and has excellent coverage on a variety of writing questions including paper arguments,style,organization and plagiarism. We have also received the permission from a few former students to post some examples well-written student essays that we have received in the past at Wayne, in the hope that these may offer some guidance. If your ambition extends beyond writing correctly to writing well (and we hope it does), you cannot ask for better guides than the following two authors:Presentations. Edward Tufte, guru of visual design, once noted that "Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely." Most presentations these days use some sort of electronic display of information. Most presentations are (therefore) terrible. Presenters offer incomprehensible slides densely worded with text and then read from those slides. In other settings these could easily be used as an enhanced interrogation technique. Your group project will require you to make a project presentation. Instructors will work with you in discussion sections to design presentations that make effective use of the technology and get your points across as effectively as possible. The quality of your presentation will comprise 20% of the grade of the group project (or, for those with a mathematical inclination, 8% of the overall course grade).Citing your sources. In our information-based society, ideas are as precious as the gold of earlier eras. Stealing someone else's ideas is no more acceptable than stealing someone else's possessions, and it will get you in a lot of trouble. But why steal something that is already free? The only cost to you as a student for using somebody else's ideas is that you must give them appropriate credit and that is very easy to do. If you get any idea from any source, you must cite that source, even if you do not use the same wording. In other words, you must cite the source even if you rewrite it in your own words. Furthermore, if you use an author's specific wording for more than three words in sequence ("In the beginning..."), youmust put the words in quotation marks. For more guidance, we have adapted guidelines written Dr. Noel Parker of the University of Surrey on when and why to cite others' words. In general, please simply follow the adage: 'when in doubt, cite your source'" (Cason 1998). The previous sentence is a case in point. The quotation in question came from the web-site of Prof. Jeffrey Cason at Middlebury College. If this syllabus were a paper, it would have to contain the following entry:
- William Zinsser, On Writing Well, Chapters 2 through 4
- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Works Cited
Cason, Jeffrey. 2009. Academic Conduct. Available WWW: https://segue1.middlebury.edu/index.php?&site=is101a-s03§ion=1902&page=6718&action=site [Accessed 10 January 2009].
Individual senior lecturers will provide their own specific guidelines for citation format, but all of them will require that you use a consistent style all the way through your paper. If you have any questions or doubts about what to cite, you must contact us before you hand in a paper with questionable references. Do not risk your grade--perhaps even your college career--by needlessly using somebody else's ideas and failing to credit them.
The consequence of plagiarism is automatic expulsion from the course with a failing grade
Of course the most serious problems with citation are not accidental omissions but intentional efforts to save thought and effort by simply copying what somebody else has already done. The paper assignments in this course cannot be answered by anything you can buy or copy whole from the internet or from fellow students, and we have become extremely adept at identifying the sources of plagiarism. Unfortunately, there have been enough attempts (none successful) that we now subject papers to a random screening process involving test-based search engines and the surprisingly discerning services of the university's web-based plagiarism detector. In the unlikely event that you still want to take the risk of plagiarizing, we will deal with the attempts in accordance with the provisions of the Student Due Process Statue specified in the university's Academic Integrity statement, which you can obtain online at http://www.otl.wayne.edu/wsu_integrity.php.
Paper Format. Papers must be double spaced, with reasonable font size (12) and margins (1 inch), and within the specified length guidelines. All these guidelines are there for your benefit as well as for ours. A paper that is too long bears evidence of inability to be concise and organized. A paper that is too short suggests that something is missing. Finally, think for at least a moment about aesthetics. Papers that are messy, crammed together or otherwise unreadable suggest a lack of attention to detail that may also be found in the content itself.
Paper Deadlines. Papers are due at the beginning of discussion section in the week in which they are due. They must be handed in in person. We will not accept emailed papers or any other form of submission except by explicit prior written agreement with your senior lecturer. Papers not handed in at the beginning of discussion will incur an immediate deduction of a full letter grade (for example from A- to B-). After 24 hours has elapsed the deduction will increase to two letter grades, and so on for each additional 24 hour period. We will not grant extensions for any reason except (as above) written evidence of trauma or tragedy.
Paper Evaluation. An excellent paper must demonstrate a strong argument expressed in a coherent thesis statement and developed in an organized fashion using appropriate argument and evidence. Grammar and syntax are also crucial. We will grade papers as if this were an English class. An abundance of grammatical and usage errors can have a severely negative effect on your grade. If you have questions, we have prepared an extremely detailed account of how we grade written work.
| F | D | D+ | C- | C | C+ | B- | B | B+ | A- | A |
| <60 | 60-64 | 65-69 | 70-73 | 74-76 | 77-79 | 80-83 | 84-86 | 87-89 | 90-93 | 94-100 |
| Week | Dates | Theme | Readings and Assignments due this week |
| 1 | January 11 to 15 | What should we do? Problems and opportunities; structures and agents | No readings yet. Preliminary paper due in sections. |
| 2 | January 18 to 22 | What should we do, part 2. No lecture, BUT DISCUSSION AS NORMAL | |
| 3 | January 25 to 29 | Ways of do-ing: The principles of politics |
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| 4 | February 01 to 05 | The Burger-King effect Revisited: Our inherited resources, values, and institution. |
Do: Take the IDEAlog online ideology quiz: http://idealog.org/en/quiz/8467b33 Do: Print out your score sheets for both and bring them to section on Monday/Tuesday Feb. 9-12, and to class on February 15-16 |
| 5 | February 08 to 12 | Resource conflicts: Mine against Theirs |
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| 6 | February 15 to 19 | Value conflicts: Lefts against Rights |
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| 7 | February 22 to 26 | Institutional channels for resources and value conflicts: Republicans against Democrats |
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| 8 | March 01 to 05 | Institutional conflicts at the center: President against Congress |
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| 9 | March 08 to 12 | Institutional conflicts between center and region: Feds against states |
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| Break | March 15 to 19 | No lecture or discussion |
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| 10 | March 22 to 26 | Institutional conflicts between past and present: The Constitution against Everybody: |
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| 11 | March 29 to 02 | How should we do it? Demonstrations, litigators and actors who (try to) shift values |
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| 12 | April 05 to 09 | How should we do it? Service, policy and actors who (try to) redistribute resources |
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| 13 | April 12 to 16 | How should we do it? Globalization and the redefinition of agency |
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| 14 | April 19 to 23 | How should we do it? Presentation of top group projects. | No readings. Reread and re-edit your own work. |
| 15 | April 26 to 30 | No lecture or discussion. You're free. | Due: Site Assessment papers due in Honors office by 4:30pm, April 26. |
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Can you please put up the reading for this week???
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