代写CMST 1A03: Introduction to Communication Winter 2024帮做R编程

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Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts

CMST 1A03: Introduction to Communication

Winter 2024

Essay (30%)

Due date: Apr 12, 11:59PM EST. Late submissions will be penalized 3% for each day (including Saturdays and Sundays) that they are overdue. Assignments that are submitted more than seven days after the deadline (i.e., after Apr 19, 11:59PM EST) may not be accepted.

Note: there is a three-day grace period, during which late penalties will not be incurred (late submissions may receive limited feedback in their evaluation). Late penalties for any submission after the three-day grace period (i.e., after Apr 15, 11:59PM EST) will be cumulative; late penalties will be calculated using the original date, e.g., an assignment submitted on Apr 15 will be considered three days late and incur no late penalty, but an assignment submitted on Apr 16 will be considered four days late and incur a late penalty of 12%.

Length requirements: 1500-2000 words (recommended, not required). Submissions that are substantially short of, or go over, this range will not be penalized on a strict quantitative basis    (e.g., 2% per 100 words or some other such formula), but they may lose nominal marks for failing to adhere to the formal/technical requirements in the event that they significantly exceed or fall shy of the requirements.

Submission requirements: Students should upload their assignment to the dropbox titled “Essay” on Avenue to Learn as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or PDF (.pdf). Files should be named as follows: “Surname-FirstName-StudentNumber,” e.g., “Shin- Dale-123456789.docx.”

Submissions made by email to the instructor will not be accepted and will be considered late if they have not been uploaded to the submission box on Avenue to Learn.

Research requirements: Students must cite or refer to at least five (5) academic sources, of which no more than one (1) can be from the course assigned readings. (Course assigned readings do not have to be used; all academic sources can be from outside of the course.) An academic source can include an article from a peer-reviewed journal, a chapter from a text published by a university or scholarly press, etc. Non-academic sources like newspaper articles or blog entries can also be used but will only count as half (0.5) an academic source, and a maximum of two (2) non-academic sources (i.e., the equivalent of one (1) academic source) may count towards the minimum number of academic sources that must be included in the paper.

If students are unsure as to whether a source can be considered sufficiently academic, they should ask the instructor to confirm its acceptability.

Students must cite each of their sources at least once, either through quotations or paraphrases.

Formatting requirements: Double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman/Arial/Cambria.

Citations should be formatted in APA citation style. (either 6th or 7th edition). Students unfamiliar with APA citations are encouraged to review the Purdue Online Writing Lab’s manual or avail themselves of an online citation generating service.

Submissions should include a cover page that includes student name, number, and course information, along with an appropriate title (e.g., “‘They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore’: Modern Hollywood, Blockbuster Franchises, and the Disposable Film Star”).

Students may use first-person pronouns (e.g., “I,” “my,” etc.) in the course of their work.

Instructions:

1.   Students are to write an essay on the topic they chose for the annotated bibliography, using the sources they identified and annotated. The essay can be written in any format (e.g., the hamburger format) and include subtitles or headings.

2.   Essays should not just repeat the annotated bibliography by summarizing the sources, but should instead develop a coherent argument or analysis that draws upon the sources to support the argument or analysis.

3.   Essays should include an introduction and a conclusion, as well as a cover and works cited page.

Turnitin: Students’ submissions will be checked for originality after they have uploaded their assignment, using Turnitin (see the syllabus). By submitting their assignment to the dropbox on Avenue to Learn, students will have automatically uploaded their assignments to Turnitin; they  do not have to access the Turnitin site directly, as the anti-plagiarism functionality is built into the dropbox on Avenue to Learn. For their assignment to be accepted for grading, students must produce a similarity index score lower than 20%. Submissions with a score of 20% or higher will not be graded until they are resubmitted with a satisfactory score.

Essays will be evaluated according to the following criteria (in order of importance):

• persuasiveness and rigour in arguing for a particular position or perspective in relation to the chosen theme from the course, as illustrated through references to contemporary examples, issues, and debates about communication related to that theme;

• relevance, use, and explication of academic sources, that is, how judiciously they choose and faithfully they reconstruct the scholarly literature on the chosen theme from the course, demonstrating that they have undertaken a studied engagement of the course material and/or external scholarship through quotes, paraphrases, etc.;

• quality of writing, as reflected both in the attention to proofreading, editing, citations,  etc., to limit typographical, grammatical, and other errors, and in the observance of the assignment’s formal and technical requirements, e.g., citation style, spacing and margins, etc.