The Iceman Otzi

38698Anthropology Research Term Paper

*note: this is a research paper, not an essay. I’m not asking for how you feel about your topic, I’m asking you to tell me what the evidence says about it.

Format: 
* about 2,000 words of text (not counting the “works cited” page, illustrations, charts, the cover page, etc.,). A little more or less isn’t an issue, but papers with fewer than 1,800 words or more than 2,200 words will probably lose points for being overly brief or rambling. 
* Double spaced, indent the first line of each paragraph.
* 1 inch margins (note: some versions of MS Word use 1.25 inch margins on the left side of the page as the default; you’ll need to check this setting and change it if necessary.)
* Make sure your pages are numbered (please use the “header/footer” for this-  if you insert the page numbers manually it messes up the formatting for the rest of the document).  
* Size 10 or 12 font; preferably Garamond, Times New Roman, or Palatino.
* Use “in-text” citations to cite your sources within the body of your paper.
* Make sure your “works cited” page is formatted according to the following: MLA.
* Save or export the file as a PDF for submission. Other file formats cause problems when I go to grade them. If I can’t open or read your file, I can’t grade it.

Citations and sources:

Your choice of MLA documentation style may be used. If you do not cite a source in the body of the text, do NOT include it in the “Works Cited”. Information which falls into the category of general knowledge is not cited, nor does it belong on the works cited page. For the term paper you should have at least 5-7 sources of information, and they should be as recent as possible for your topic. Your textbook may NOT be used as a source; it is “common knowledge” for the purposes of this class. You may NOT quote from the text. You should also avoid textbooks from other classes, as well as encyclopedias including Wikipedia and similar. No more than 2 of your sources may be websites (please choose web resources carefully). Note that online access to print media does not count as a “website”. In other words, if you gain access to an article published in the journal “Antiquity” through online search engines, that article counts as a print source. Print or online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are not acceptable sources for this assignment.

All papers must have both “in text” citations AND the “Works Cited” page.