From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Sep 17 09:51:15 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l8HDpF4L005401 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:51:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l8HDp6xf056625 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 11433 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2007 13:51:06 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2007 13:51:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 9881 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2007 13:48:45 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2007 13:48:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 24394 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2007 13:47:15 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2007 13:47:15 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 2361636 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:47:15 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 29698 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2007 13:46:30 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2007 13:46:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 11014 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2007 13:46:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2007 13:46:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l8HDkGOL005095 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l8HDkGQ5005094 for cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:46:16 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200709171346.l8HDkGQ5005094@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:46:16 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Term-paper proposals To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.2/4310/Mon Sep 17 08:47:06 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1253 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Term-paper proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The term-paper proposals are beginning to trickle in, which is great! (Remember: The deadline is Thursday, Oct. 11.) One thing that you need to make sure you do is to clearly indicate how your proposed paper is related to cognitive science and is something more than merely a paper in your "home" discipline. As I say in the syllabus: "you must indicate how the topic is related to cognitive science, preferably to the material covered in lectures and readings. Moreover, it should not just be a re-hash of either (a) a paper you have done (or are doing) for another course or (b) material that you are already knowledgeable in. In other words, the paper should be a learning experience. So, if you are majoring in cognitive-science-related academic discipline X, and the term paper covers disciplines X and Y, then the amount of material on X should be no more than 50% (if it covers X, Y, and Z, then no more than 33%)." One easy way to accomplish this is to ensure that your bibliography is evenly split among at least 2, and preferably 3, of the cognitive sciences.