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The Content of every assignment is evaluated.  Check your main syllabus to determine the requirements for the specific content of your assignment.  Please ask if you are not clear as to what is required!  Many general points about how to improve your content are found below.
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The content will be evaluated based on how well is the analysis is developed.  This entails utilization of appropriate types of analysis, as discussed in the section of the syllabus on    Types of Analysis    Link  It is important for the student or student group to utilize several types of analysis (see the section of the syllabus which discusses Types of Analysis), and to explore each one to its logical conclusion. 

One common pitfall is the underdevelopment of a type of analysis.  For example, simply discussing the occurrence of a given social phenomenon at several periods in history is usually insufficient.  The assignment must show how particular socio-historical events affected the outcome discussed in the paper, particularly the conclusions.  Thus an assignment must not merely touch upon several topics or types of analysis.  Rather each section should fully address a given issue. 

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The content will be evaluated on how well the assignment utilizes  sociological concepts, models, examples, & theories  as expounded in the course and found in research.  The assignment should pay particular attention to sociological concepts, models, examples, and theories which are examined in the course.  These concepts should be applied to the topic under examination in the context of each of the types of analyses used. 
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The assignment is evaluated on how interesting it is.  The ideas must be fresh, or take a new angle on an old  idea.  The observations/analysis suggest a critical perspective or unique insights.  The subject is analyzed intelligently, accurately & thoroughly
The paper goes beyond the obvious, providing sociological insights to the lay-person.  The conclusions follow from the material presented.
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The assignment should use one or more sociological perspective.      (functionalism, critical, or symbolic-interactionist)
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The assignment follows the recommendations made by the Professor  on any prior & related assignments, such as the Draft and Final Proposals.  Where prior assignments such as a Draft are assigned, the content of the term project should do what the student proposed it would do.  That is, if a comparison of two variables was proposed,  then that comparison should be made in the term project
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