Overview
This is one of ten opportunities to do the writing memos. The memos should be about 1000-1200 words and deal with all of the assigned readings (or other materials listed under "readings") that week. The week 8 readings are:
- Robert W. Baloh & Robert E. Bartholomew. Havana Syndrome. Chapters 1, 3, 5, and 11.
Memos do not need to be a single essay with a thesis but may also be structured as a series of mini-memos that deal with each reading separately.
NEW. Please cite all sources including both the assigned readings and anything else you use (e.g., a newspaper article against which you compare an assigned reading for analysis). You may use any accepted citation style (e.g., APA, Chicago) but the TAs and I are used to American Sociological Association style which is also what you see used in most of your readings. Default ASA style is to have a works cited section at the end and then a brief "in-line" citation in parentheses whenever you refer to and especially whenever you directly quote from a source. It is also acceptable to use footnotes for citations.
Memos should include a mix of summary and analysis or critical reaction. Examples of satisfactory analysis would be:
- Contrast to readings from another class
- Contrast to readings from a previous week of this class
- Show how current events illustrate the theories in the reading
- Show how current events demonstrate the theories in the reading to be dated and in need of revision
Memos will be graded using four points on a ten point scale:
- 10 = Summarized and gave analysis on all the readings. Did a reasonably good job but doesn't need to be Pulitzer-worthy.
- 8 = Something is missing. Could be there is summary but no analysis. Could be writing quality is especially poor.
- 5 = Something major is missing. eg, left out one of the readings.
- 0 = Obviously didn't do the reading and just faking it.
Work that is more than a few minutes late will suffer a 50% penalty.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-4...
Don’t use outside resources please, thank you!