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Guide To Writing
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We encourage you to take courses with
as many different professors in our program as possible. Like
all the different people and organizations you will work with in the
future, each of us have our individual preferences when it comes to
style, language etc. The recommendations we give here are supported
by disciplinary traditions that you will see also in anthropological
books and articles. You should be prepared to follow the
guidelines required in individual courses. In those areas
where alternative styles/formats are possible, we expect that you consistently
implement the format you choose and that the format you choose helps
readers to understand the knowledge and arguments you present.
To help the reader, you must give each
of your writings a proper format. They
must have an appropriate logical structure, references, citations, format and presentation. Teachers will consider all of these issues,
as well as the quality and quantity of the research presented, when
they grade.
The type of assignment dictates differences
in writing. While a two-page
comment or review needs a title, it hardly needs headlines (although
each paragraph, of course, needs to discuss a particular issue). A
fifteen-page research paper, however, frequently needs headlines. Thus,
below are guidelines to be used and amended to the specific purpose
of your particular assignment. Some of the issues to consider when writing
any paper are discussed in the following sections.
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