Posted: February 28th, 2017

Evaluating Scholarly Sources tutorial from the Ashford Library. Review the in-text citation every time you include information you learned from one of your sources.

Final Paper Requirements (Click links below) Introduction The introduction should be one paragraph. Explain the scope of your paper and set up the topics you will cover. Everything covered in your paper should relate back to the introduction and thesis statement. Draw from what you learned while identifying thesis statements in the Week Two Locating Scholarly Resources assignment to help you craft your own thesis statement. Review your instructor’s feedback on your thesis statement from your Week Three Summarize Your Sources for the Final Research Paper assignment. View Accessing Feedback in the Gradebook to see how to reviewing your instructor’s feedback. See resources from the Ashford Writing Center on Moving from Prompt to Thesis–How to Turn a Prompt Into a Thesis and Introductions and Conclusions. Part I This section should be two- to two-and-a-half pages long. Use what you learned in the “Locating Scholarly Sources” assignment from Week Two to find your source in the Ashford University Library. Weight your discussion evenly between Parts I and II. Do not let one discussion overshadow the other. Demonstrate a culturally relativistic perspective throughout this section. Do not use opinionated or judgmental language. Use the article by Miner to guide your own description. How would an anthropologist describe the topic you’ve chosen? Use reliable sources to support your analysis. Review the Evaluating Scholarly Sources tutorial from the Ashford Library. Review the in-text citation every time you include information you learned from one of your sources. Part II This section should be two to two and a half pages in length. Use what you learned in the “Locating Scholarly Sources” assignment from Week Two to find your source in the Ashford University Library. Weight your discussion evenly between Parts I and II. Do not let one discussion overshadow the other. Demonstrate a culturally relativistic perspective throughout this section. Do not use opinionated or judgmental language. Use the article you have chosen to guide your own description. How would an anthropologist describe the topic you have chosen? Include an in-text citation every time you include information you learned from one of your sources. Conclusion Review Introductions and Conclusions. Your conclusion should be one paragraph. The conclusion should relate back to your introduction and thesis statement. Reiterate what you have covered in the paper. Incorporate some of your self-reflexive analysis from the “Self-Reflexive Journal” entry you created in Week Four.