Final paper guidelines

We encourage you to discuss the final paper with your TA, and we encourage you to do it sooner rather than later. It will be due Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:59pm NYC time. As per Slack, We've heard from a number of students facing a particular confluence of schedule-challenges at present, particularly regarding COVID.

With that in mind, please be aware of this extension: The paper which was due Thursday is now due one week later: Thursday evening, 28 April, 11:59 pm NYC time.

Here are the guidelines:

Write

• 15 page double-spaced paper (if you're coming more from a tech background and doing 3 HWs) OR a
• 10 page double-spaced paper (if you're on more from a humanities background and doing 5 HWs )

discussing any question related to the themes of the course, broadly construed, and informed by our class discussions and/or materials from prior weeks as is appropriate. The paper could be a development of your op-ed in a more academic direction, or a development of one of your reading responses into a more formal research paper, or a new idea or intervention you wish to examine based on your own expertise, interests, and course concerns. Every paper should blend the more technical and the more humanistic sides of the course so it should not take the form of a technical report. The paper should have a clearly developed argument of your own, and not only summarize other people's arguments. Feel free to draw on the readings we assigned, those listed as optional, and other similar readings you find via your own research. Write assuming a more sophisticated audience than for your op-ed, but don't assume readers will be familiar with technical jargon--explain it. Your paper must include at least 3 scholarly references.
You should include references in a citation system you find most comfortable (MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.).