Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423 [email protected]
Final Paper Project
Final papers are expected to be 12-15 pages (double spaced, 12 font with reasonable margins). Please include a bibliography at the end of your paper in the Author-Date style, which is used consistently in our wiki and I have demonstrated this format and the rules for referencing, in-text referencing and footnotes for your second paper. Please refer to that page when in doubt.
Please make sure that your sources are academic/scholarly sources from academic/scholarly publications. In VERY rare occasions you can use a website/web based resource if you have a good reason to do so. It is always helpful to illustrate your paper with maps, architectural plans and drawings, photographs, etc. If you do so, please number your figures, provide figure captions and the source of your image. Use the author-date style for that as well (for example Bellamy 2012: fig. 13) and include the reference in your bibliography. Please keep quotations from your sources to a minimum. I've spoken to several of you about this. Having too many quotations makes the paper unreadable and cumbersome, and it doesn't sound like your own work any more. Use quotations and epigraphs only when you REALLY need them and if you do so, explain/contextualize/discuss why exactly you are quoting. Engage with the text.
Different from the first two papers, your final paper is expected to have a solid argument, a novel contribution to your subject matter. The goal of the paper is to focus on one or few case studies of places of healing based on existing scholarly work with the help of the theoretical/conceptual perspectives you were introduced in class. Make sure to go back to your notes and class readings from the semester and engage your topic with them closely. Please imaging a broad readership (not just your professor)- which means that you should make every effort to make it accessible to an educated/academic but non-specialist audience. To give you an example, let's say you are comparing your case study to Husayn Tekri in India, don't assume that your reader has read Carla Bellamy's Powerful Ephemeral. Please don't keep your topic too broad or vague, but nail a few ideas with concrete examples. Please remember that, regardless of whether you are writing about pilgrimage, body and bodily experience, local knowledge, embodiment, dreamtime and dreamscapes, miracles, miraculous healing, you are expected to be engaging with questions of place on the one hand and healing on the other.
As I mentioned in class, I am happy to read drafts, if you send them to me before December 10th. I am afraid I can't give last minute feedback. Page limit is crucial, please don't exceed it. If you have a paper that is longer, read it again, edit and cut! Also don't forget to proofread before submitting. The technology is very advanced on this- with spelling and grammar checks built in word processing programs.
Due on December 14th Friday before 5 pm. in HARD COPY, at the Cogut Center for Humanities (bring it to my office or leave it with Traude Kastner in the center offices on the 1st floor). You might want to send me a digital version over the e-mail to make sure I got it.