Design & Society

Term Paper Grading Rubric

Using Quotes

Reminder

• Dr. Henry Petroski speaks tonight. 5:30-7:30pm at the Center for Engineering, Science, and Technology, at 1930 SW Fourth Avenue

• Term paper is due 1 week from today.– Anyone who provides me with a hard copy of a draft

of their paper, I will try and provide comments by Monday at class time.

• Bridge building Project starts Monday– Read activity 1– Be sure your team has all the supplies

Term Paper Grading Rubric• 5. A title and author• 5. Appropriate length (6-7 pages)• 10. A good thesis paragraph.

– not too broad, a little controversial, clear and unambiguous• 25. Sections and paragraphs that clearly support the

thesis.• 10. Sections and paragraphs that anticipate arguments

against the thesis.• 10. Good use of quotes• 5. Fits the theme of designers role’s in the Renaissance

and today.• 5. A bibliography in MLA style.• 10. Correct spelling, punctuation, grammar.• 10. Original and interesting to read

Citations•What do you need to cite?

•Typically, not common knowledge found in introductory texts—the reader is likely to be familiar with the material and will not mistake it for your own. •If you’re writing a review article, or trying to establish an historical thread, you might cite familiar material. •But if material might be unknown, or from an obscure source, or should be credited as the work of another, then you need a citation.

Citation Style•Usually use in-line citation in parentheses with

author and page–The predictive parsing algorithm is more efficient than the backtracking algorithm (Aho and Ullman, 345).–This is the MLA Style– Other formats may be dictated by the purpose of the paper. For example, journal or conference proceedings often dictate a particular style.–Use the style dictated, and stick to it.

Cited work as subject or object

• If the cited work is the subject of a sentence, or the object of a verb, one uses the author’s last name, and one puts the page number in parentheses– Aho and Ullman (14) give a more general formulation of the algorithm.

Citation Style•The Last name usually enough. Use first

name or initial to disambiguate. Don’t use titles (Dr., Professor)

–Sethi (16) proves the converse is false.–P. Fischer (17) proved generalized tic-tac-toe is NP-Hard; M. Fischer (18) showed it is actually NP-complete.

Frequency and Location•Generally don’t need to re-cite in the same

paragraph.–Reps and Horwitz (20) present the design of a structured editor. They also observe that sometimes non-structured editing is easier (20).

Location of Citation

•Not a single right place for a citation, but there are wrong places.

–Morris and Pratt (4) present an algorithm for string matching, with sublinear behavior.

–Morris and Pratt present an algorithm for string matching, with sublinear behavior (4).

Groups of Papers and Authors

• Group and order citations.–Usually want citations in order given in reference list. (The reference list is the list of cited reference gathered together at the end of the paper.)

–If you use names (i.e MLA style) (e.g. “Bumpte (1975) showed”) multiple citations should be alphabetical.

Location of Citations

•Location should be appropriate so information content is clear

•Several researchers have reported good results, but the two negative reports were from studies on much larger populations (Hobart 38; Johns 19; Johnson 42; Rene 25; Rose 18; Smith 14).

•Several researchers have reported good results (Hobart 38; Johns 19; Johnson 42; Rose 18), but the two negative reports (Rene 25; Smith 14) were from studies on much larger populations.

Groups of Papers and Authors•If the text says the same thing about a list

of citations, group the citations.

–Miller (23), Rabin and Karp (24), and Zyt (25) have analyzed this randomized algorithm.

Several authors (Miller 23; Rabin and Karp 24,Zyt 25) have analyzed this ...

Groups of Papers and Authors

•If you use et al. (3 or more authors), only list one author.

–Aho et al. (12) proved the conjecture is false.

Aho and colleagues (12) proved ...

Multiple Editions• If the book you are citing from comes in

multiple editions, the page number may not be sufficient. Examples

– Shakespeare’s Hamlet– Mark Twain’s Huck Finn

• Then it is a good idea to put additional location material in the citation – e.g. (Mark Twain 34 ; ch. 3)

• The MLA style suggests the following abbreviations– (vol.), book (bk.), part (pt.), chapter (ch.), section

(sec.), paragraph (par.)

Multiple Works by same author

• If you cite multiple works by the same author, use the last name and an abreviated title.

• (Twain , “Huck Finn” 34)

• (Twain, “A CT Yankee” 45)

Formatting Quotations

• Short ones, in-line in the text using quotation marks.

• According to Alexander Pope “To err is human, to forgive divine” (12), though others say “to really foul things up requires a computer” (Farmers Almanac 1978, 674)

Longer quotes Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and

dehumanizes him throughout her narration: They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or

even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)

• This example comes from the OWL web page– http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/04/

Using Quotes

• For many more examples, go to– http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/