Guidelines for Final Research Papers
I. Overall Outline of Your Paper:
Introduction
(topic of your paper, what will you show?)
Data & Methods
(brief description of C-Span data; brief description of conversation analytic method)
Analysis of Data
(largest section of the paper)
Summary & Conclusions
References
(the textbook and any articles within the textbook that you quoted or paraphrased in your
paper)
II. Citation formats:
The only source you will need for this paper is the class textbook (Garcia, 2013). Here is a summary of how to cite the text for quotes and paraphrases:
A. In-text Citations: In your paper use the author’s last name and year of publication followed by page numbers. Citations must be given for both quotes and paraphrases. Failure to provide citations for quotes/material/ideas/anything obtained from another author’s work is plagiarism.
a. Here is how a quote should be cited:
“Blah blah blah blah” (Garcia, 2013, p. 45).
b. Here is how a paraphrase should be cited:
Summary summary summary summary (Garcia, 2013, pp. 46-48).
c. If you use a quote of another author’s work which is cited in the text, cite that author (e.g., Schegloff, 1979, p. 45), and include that citation in your list of references. Use the format for references that is used in the text book.
B. Example for citing quotes: Direct quotes require quotation marks and citation (author, year, page). If the quote is longer than three lines of text, set it off from the text with space above and below, and indent both right and left. For example:
Regini (2002, p. 2) writes that crisis negotiation team “leaders must be experienced, knowledgeable, and articulate supervisors or senior investigators.” They must have knowledge of behavioral sciences and human behavior and work effectively with other team members:
“training in handling manipulative subjects, reframing techniques to put a ‘different spin’ on negative thoughts and perceptions of hostile subjects, and using guided discovery-questioning techniques to augment a negotiator’s basic problem-solving skills.” (Regini 2002, p. 4)
The ability to defuse intense emotions is also an important skill for crisis negotiators….
III. Analysis Section of Paper:
Use what you have learned about conversation analysis to analyze the class data set. You can cut and paste excerpts from the data set as needed to illustrate your analysis. Transcript excerpts should be indented .5 inches left and right, and set off from the text with a space before and after each excerpt. Number the excerpts and be sure to refer to specific line numbers in your analysis of the excerpts.
IV. Formatting of Paper:
1. Double Space
2. 12 point type (Times New Roman font)
3. Indent paragraphs; do not leave extra space between paragraphs
4. Your nameand Sectionon first page of paper (separate cover page notneeded). Do notuse headers/footers, except for the page numbers (add page numbers to the upper right hand corner).
5. Length of paper: 12-15 pages
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