Christianity 3

Weight: Assignment 3 is worth 30% of your final course grade. Length: Your long essay should be 12 to 14 pages (2500–3000 words, exclusive of notes and bibliography, double-spaced, with standard 1.25-inch margins and 12-point Times New Roman font). Long quotations should be set off as a block, indented from left, and single-spaced without quotation marks. Bibliography and footnotes/endnotes should be single-spaced. Please provide a separate title page with an intelligent title, your name and student number, the course name and number, your tutor’s name, and the submission date. Each page after the title page should be numbered. Goal: Write an essay that responds to your tutor-approved research topic using at least five scholarly sources and relevant primary texts from the early Christian period. Some questions will require you to examine primary texts very closely as well as various interpretations by modern scholars. Other questions will report more on the debates of modern scholars and their findings, but you should still consider the evidence scholars use. Standards: Your long essay should conform to the standards for research materials, documentation, organization, and use of evidence as explained in the Skills Modules of this course. Plagiarism: Plagiarism occurs when a student uses the words or ideas of another person without giving proper credit, as explained in Skills Module 5 of this course. The re-submission of a paper in whole or in part that you have written for credit in another course is considered cheating. Tutors look for signs of plagiarism and take action when they suspect it. Evaluation of Your Essay: Tutors evaluate the quality of essays based on several general criteria. They check to see how thoughtful the essay is and how persuasively it argues a thesis that addresses the assigned question. The information in the essay should be accurate, precise, and relevant. Evidence should be well chosen, clearly explained, and scrupulously documented. The evidence should come from reliable primary and scholarly sources. The parts of the essay should be well organized, and each paragraph and sentence clearly written in an academic tone. Tutors will provide feedback on your essay that justifies the mark. Tutors will also indicate the essay’s strengths and weaknesses, and offer suggestions for improvement—so read your tutor’s comments when your essay is returned. Refer to your Course Information document, the section titled Grading of Written Work, which indicates how tutors assign grades for research essays.