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
• 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