Requirements for research paper
- What’s the central theme or thesis of your paper?
- Everything should inform that core idea
- Use headings and subheadings, page numbers
- Introduction
- GNH idea
- Introduces the issues, literature review (can include relevant sources from the syllabus and elsewhere)
- Critique of current paradigm
- Alternative paradigm from Bhutan, UN
- Focus of this paper
- GNH idea
- Overview of the topic
- Overview of your focus (may be 2-3 sections)
- Steps for the transformation
- Measurement issues (“Efficient use of resources”)
- Potential solutions
- Conclusion
- Overview of central points
- Issues for further research
- Bibliography – be certain to include all relevant information; set Zotero preferences to use the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines.
- The grade for your paper is based on the following criteria.
Grasp of the major issues of the assignment__________
• Description of the case
Analysis: applications of theoretical tools____________
• Analysis of the dimensions of the problem
(reciprocal, institutional, ritual)
• Analysis of the causes of the problem: who,
what, when, where, why, how
• Proposed solutions
Use of texts & course materials:___________________
* Accuracy of interpretation
* Use of course readings, lectures, etc.
Use of sources in addition to course materials________
• Appropriate and adequate sources/Appropriate bibliography & citations