Final paper guidelines - data-ppf/data-ppf.github.io GitHub Wiki

We encourage you to discuss the final paper with your TA, and we encourage you to do it sooner rather than later. As per Slack.

Due date: May 3, 11:59 pm

Here are the guidelines:

Write

• 15 page double-spaced paper (if you're coming more from a tech background and doing 3 HWs) OR a
• 10 page double-spaced paper (if you're on more from a humanities background and doing 5 HWs )

discussing any question related to the themes of the course, broadly construed, and informed by our class discussions and/or materials from prior weeks as is appropriate.

+The paper could be a development of your op-ed in a more academic direction, or a development of one of your reading responses into a more formal research paper, or a new idea or intervention you wish to examine based on your own expertise, interests, and course concerns.

+Every paper should blend the more technical and the more humanistic sides of the course so it should not take the form of a technical report.

+The paper should have a clearly developed argument of your own, and not only summarize other people's arguments.

+Feel free to draw on the readings we assigned, those listed as optional, and other similar readings you find via your own research.

• Write assuming a more sophisticated audience than for your op-ed, but don't assume readers will be familiar with technical jargon--explain it.

• Your paper must include at least 5 scholarly references and engagement with at least one major primary source.

• You should include references in a citation style most relevant to your field (MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.).