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I need you to write a 6 page paper at least with a
time frame of 5 hours
and the most important thing is to have it within the time frame place.
1.What is Physiocracy? How did Adam Smith disagree with it?
Right above me is the topic for the pa
Here are the four key issues regarding your paper that I
examine as I consider a grade for it:
1) The quality of your paper’s thesis (or your answer to
the question posed);
2) The logic you use to support your thesis;
3) The clarity of your paper’s organization and writing;
and
4) Your use of sources (including proper
citation/reference practice).
Without a thesis, your paper’s grade will never be above a
C, no matter how well you organize, write and use
sources. And if your logic, organization, writing and use of
sources are poor, the paper will likely receive an even
lower grade.
Of course, the usual problem is not the lack of a thesis,
but a weak or poorly informed one. The two are often
linked (if your answer to the question is poor, it is likely
that the logic you use to defend it will betray its
weaknesses). The base for the grade in these cases will
normally be somewhere between C+ and B.
A good thesis is one that answers the question well. What
“well? means depends upon the context of the assignment.
If I have asked you to answer a question about a text we
are reading in class, then a good thesis will represent the
text’s argument well, including at least some of the nuance
in the original author’s argument. If you are writing a
research paper, then your thesis should be one that is
clearly stated, fairly balances the weight of the evidence,
and provides the means to answer competing claims
about the issue.
A good thesis usually forms the basis for a paper in the B
range. It is better than an ?adequate? thesis (C range) but
not as fine as a ?very good? thesis (B+ to A- ranges). Note
as well that there can be variations within a range: a
“pretty good? thesis is more likely to be a B than a B- or an
B+/A-, and a ?decent” thesis is more likely to be a B- than
a C+ or B. You get the idea.
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Here is the complete verbal description breakdown:
excellent (A to A+); very good (B+ to A-); good (B); decent
(B-); adequate (C+); barely adequate (C); inadequate (D
that component of the paper will be reduced. The sources
and citations should conform to a standard bibliographic
format such as the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual
of Style. I’m less concerned about which format you use
than that you use it consistently!
I provide a summary of my consideration of your paper at
the end, using the title ?General Comments.” Here is a
sample ?general comment? on a paper:
Pretty good thesis, but your paper does not develop
the argument very well. See my comment on p. 3
where I suggest that the second step in your
argument really misses the point, and leads you
astray. Fortunately, you made several other good
points later in the paper, although by that time I could
not figure out what was essential to your argument
and what was not. You write well, and also used the
author’s work well.
Let me unpack that set of comments:
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“Pretty good thesis? means that I start grading from
somewhere in the B+ range. I focused most of the
comment on the ?logic of the argument” and
“organization,? which in this example did not match the
quality of the thesis, although the student does make good
points. That would probably lower the B+ I started with to
somewhere in the B range, and maybe even B- if the
argument loses focus. Since the writing and use of
sources is good, that grade would end up as the overall
grade on the paper. Of course, if I said that the writing was
only ?okay” or “fair,” than the paper would drop as low as
the top end of the C range. And if there was no list of
references, the grade would drop in the low C or even D
range.
For comparison, if my comments started with ?Good
thesis, …”, then the paper would probably end up at the
top end of the C range. Of course, if I said that the writing
was only ?fair,? than the paper would definitely drop into
the C range, and possibly into the D range.
Specific comments about your argument are placed within
the text, as “comments? in Word. If you do not see any
comments, you should figure out how to display
or F).
My comments for the other components of the paper’s
grade are expressed in the same terms. Often, the logic of
your argument is directly linked to the clarity of your
paper’s organization, and I may bundle those two
components together if the one reflects the other.
I usually identify grammatical or other common writing
mistakes in the text near the beginning of the paper, and
then stop (often to avoid splashing the electronic
equivalent to ?red ink? all over every page of your paper!).
If you see some embedded comments on grammatical
errors or other aspects of writing, you should examine
your paper to see if the same mistakes recur throughout.
Many of the papers I assign are based on a single author’s
text(s). In those papers, ?use of sources? refers both to
your fairness to the original author’s text and your citation
practice. I generally find that students cite too little. If you
read the previous sentence, email the expression ?cite
more” to me and you will receive an additional 1% on your
final grade for the course. You should cite not only when
you quote, but also when you are closely paraphrasing the
author’s original text. If you are in doubt, cite.
In research papers, my comments on your ?use of
sources? will refer more to the range of sources that you
use to produce a scholarly argument, as well as your
citation practice. Books and scholarly articles should be
the primary sources for a research paper. Online popular
essays on your subject, or news stories, etc., should be
kept to a minimum in research papers. The usual starting
point for research on economics, including the history of
the discipline, is the EconLit database, available through
the ASU Library (lib.asu.edu).
I prefer a list of references at the end of the paper with an
in-text author-date citations, rather than the use of
footnotes. If you email me an explanation of in-text,
author-date citations using as an example one of the
textbooks for our course I will give you 2 percentage
points extra on your final course grade (be sure to include
what the source would look like in the list of references at
the end of a paper). You should always have a list of
references (works cited), even when only one source is
used, so if your list of references is missing, the grade on
Good Sources to Consult About Writing Well and
Citation Practices
McCloskey, Deirdre N. (2019). Economical Writing: Thirty-
five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose, 3rd edition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [McCloskey is a
famous economist.]
Modern Language Association of America (2016). MLA
Handbook, 8th edition. See the free online companion site,
https://style.mla.org/.
Skwire, Sarah E. and David Skwire (2013). Writing with a
Thesis: A Rhetoric and Reader, 12 ed. Cengage Learning.
The University of Chicago (2017). The Chicago Manual of
Style, 17? edition. Chicago: University of Chicago. See
their online site:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.
html.
The Purdue University Writing Lab also has an excellent
set of resources, both for writing help and for various
writing styles: https://owl.purdue.edu/.
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