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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Cultrual Studies Testing pattern and evaluation criteria

Testing Pattern

CIA 2: Research paper proposals (Submission by Dec 8)

CIA 3: Presentation of essays and discussion

Mid Semester Examination: Submission of paper. Should have the first draft, two peer reviewed papers and the final paper (Length: 7-10 pages) At least 40% of the paper (To be submitted by 23 January)

End semester examination: Submission of paper. Should have the first draft, two peer reviewed papers and the final paper (Length: 15-20 pages) At least 40% of the paper (To be submitted by March 12)

The paper should strictly adhere to the standard formats of writing research papers.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated under any circumstance. The student plagiarising will be failed the submission concerned.

Evaluation Criteria:

CIA 2: Understanding of research problem, clarity, structure, language

CIA 3: Understanding of the essays, clarity of presentation, critical reading of the essay

Mid semester: Exploration of the research problem, adherence to research format, originality, language, presentation.

End semester: Exploration of the research problem, adherence to research format, originality, critical insights, language, presentation, extent of research engagement, publishability of the paper is refereed journals.

Extra weight will be given to evaluation if the students manage to publish papers in research journals.


Standard research formats are MLA, APA, Chicago Manual, Harvard. They have specific formats in terms of citation, layout, etc. You need to incorporate them in your writing. You need to follow any one format.

Following links will help you understand it better.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ (Has guidelines on MLA, Chicago and APA styles - Very good source)

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html (for Chicago)


http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/harvard.htm (Harvard)
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html (Harvard)


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