Sociology+Research+Paper+Corrections+Info


 * The fall 2012 Sociology research paper corrections are due **Monday November 19.**
 * These corrections are optional.
 * Students may earn up to 3.5 points on their research paper grade AND up to 5 points on their personal exploration grade.
 * Students who earned less than an 11 out of 18 can earn up to half their missed points back through corrections. For example, someone who earned a 10 out of 18 can get 4 points for their corrections.
 * Students may earn the aforementioned points by doing all of the following:
 * make almost all major corrections to their original paper (examples include improving thesis statement, providing better support for thesis statement, providing more and/or better specific examples + data, explaining the procedure for your original research, citing sources, making the 'hook' and conclusion more effective, etc.)
 * make almost all minor corrections to their original paper (examples include grammar corrections, footnote and works cited formatting corrections, etc.)
 * turn in a fresh copy of their updated paper __WITH__ their entire original paper.