- Does your paper speak to an academic interest, using key terms from readings and/or
Does our course focus?
• Does your paper demonstrate command of these key abstract terms?
• Is there an opportunity to define any of these key terms?
• Can you think of a key term relevant to your interpretation that you do not use?
• Does your paper use the author’s last names and relevant reporting verbs, avoiding saying
things like “the article”?
• Is the paper the required word length (5–6 pages double spaced, not counting images,
graphs, works cited)
• Does your paper have an original title, and not just a topic, that speaks to key terms?
• Does your paper include an analysis of a primary site?
• Are all the sources cited in the body of the paper (including primary research sites) listed
in the works cited page, using MLA format?
• Does your paper use at least one reading from our course?
• Will your reader be able to identify the main claim or thesis of the paper?
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Tremblay, Rémy, et al. “Academic migration at the Canada–US border.” the American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 118–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2014.885541.
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Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox.” Art Journal, vol. 78, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 48–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2019.1626157.