Using the concepts covered in this course, students will write five- to six-page, double-spaced paper describing their experience and reflections on the process of writing academic papers. Using their experience with creating a movie analysis, students will describe the steps of writing a paper (including their use of plagiarism check tool), summarize major aspects of their development as writers, and reflect on what they have learned during this process and what they still need to learn to become effective writers. In their reflections students are expected to combine their own thoughtful analysis with ideas and information found in a minimum of three sources.
Therefore, as in any scholarly writing, students should not merely copy information from another author, but use evidence to support the contentions they have drawn from their findings and critically analyze related literature – this paper has to be an analytical paper, not a summary of readings. This paper must meet APA requirements of format and style. Students must cite the sources of all ideas, facts, and information used that are not their own, even if they have put the information into their own words. Failure to do so is plagiarism, even if the oversight is unintentional.
