The object of providing this opportunity for earning extra credit is to enable students to save themselves from a grade disaster, not to ensure their receiving an high grade. (The only way one can expect to receive an "A" is to do well on the exams.) This is the second chance to improve your position, the other having been offered following the first exam. As before, materials are to be submitted within two weeks of the date on which exam papers are returned in class.
There will be no extensions. Following the specified two-week period, this opportunity will no longer be available. Even if you miss the second exam and are allowed to take a make-up test, any extra-credit papers you choose to prepare must be submitted before two weeks pass following the return of the regularly scheduled exam. (HINT: the sooner you make up a missed exam, the more time you will have to deal with extra-credit opportunities.) And, extra-credit points not accounted for after the first exam do not carry over to this opportunity. There will not be another opportunity after the third--and final--exam. Finally, no additional chances to earn extra-credit points will be extended to individuals.
Start this activity by determining how many extra-credit points are available to you. Subtract the score you earned on the second exam from the maximum number of points available and divide the difference by two. The quotient is the total number of points you can earn from taking advantage of this extra-credit opportunity.
Extra-credit points can be earned in increments of up to five points each. Each increment requires that you submit a two-page, four-paragraph, two-citation paper that is type-written and single or double spaced using a pica (ten characters per inch), elite (twelve c.p.i.) or other type font of similar size. If you have control over the count of lines per inch in the vertical direction on printed pages, select six to produce sixty-six line pages. All margins are to be approximately one inch wide.
If the allotment of extra-credit points available to you is ten, then you may submit up to two such papers. If the allotment is some number not evenly divisable by five, like seven, say, then one might likewise submit two papers, but the second one will be worth only two points. You must decide if anything less than five points is worth your time and effort.
The papers you submit will be graded! Points will be deducted because of failure to adhere to the rudiments of grammar like using complete sentences, maintaining subject-verb agreement, and being consistent with verb tenses. A minimum amount of information is expected to be covered following the outline provided below, although some of the lesser suggested topics may not be appropriate for your discussion. Finally, references must be adequate for me to find the materials you cite should they be available in a library.
The theme for this opportunity is PRODUCT OR PROCESS INNOVATION, and you are expected to select a specific subject within that theme. (Be sure to select one that allows you to address all four main points shown below.) In as many paragraphs you are to deal with the following four topics:
Each paper is to begin with a three-line "title block" centered at the top of the first page, just below the margin. In the first line you are to identify what it is you are writing about. Your name and social security number are to be centered on the line immediate below it, and the course number, semester and year are to be centered on a single line--the third one--immediately below that. The title block is not to appear on the second page.
Minimal citations are to appear in the text immediately following the first sentence in which your discussion draws on references unless you incorporate a quotation several sentences long, in which case the citation is to follow the completed quote. Citations will conform to one of the following formats. Citations within the text will list only the author's last name and year of publication, as in (Lane 2001) or (Lane and Kent 2001). If someone named Lane authored both items in the same year, the models to follow are: (White 2001a) and (White 2001b), with the "a" and "b" connoting the dates of publication unless they are the same, when they indicate the sequence in which you cited them.
Complete bibliographic references will follow the final paragraph of your paper, and will be consistent with an appropriate model in which fictitious materials are described below:
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