Style Guide for Papers

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Statement of Academic Integrity*Academic integrity lies at the foundation of the academic process.

Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, acts of fraud anddeception on an examination or class assignment, acts of forgery orunauthorized alteration of any official academic record or document, and

attempts to gain credit for work which one has plagiarized from the workof another person.

Plagiarism means taking ideas and writings from another personknown or unknown, published or unpublishedand representing them asones own work. The word-for-word use of another persons work must inevery instance be acknowledged by the use of quotation marks or byindentation and single-spacing of the material if at least three lines long,and the citation of author and precise source. Dependence upon anotherpersons work, whether through paraphrase or the utilization of thatpersons statements as a basis for ones own, must be acknowledged byauthor and source citation.

Academic dishonesty also includes the submission, as ones ownwork, of another persons work, such as another students term paper or apaper from a term paper preparation service. The submission of onesown paper, or a substantial portion thereof, for academic credit in two ormore courses also is considered to be academic dishonesty, except inthose rare instances in which the instructors involved are so informed andgive prior approval. In some cases when a faculty member believes thata student has not followed the rules for appropriate citation of materialshe or she may wish to have the student redo the work or address theproblem in another way.

General Guidelines for Papers

1. All papers should be typed and double spaced with 1-inch margins.Font-size should be 12 pt. If you do not know how to format your paper,please get assistance from the computer lab folks. Do not use headings atthe top of any page. Instead, use a title page, with the title, your name,the course name and number and section number, the date, and theprofessors name, centered. An example of a title page is at the end ofthis document.

2. Basic rules of grammar, punctuation and sentence & paragraph

structure must be followed meticulously. Contractions (i.e. cant, dont,shouldnt, etc.) are neverappropriate in formal papers. Also, try to avoidclichs and colloquialisms (i.e., ways of speaking that are appropriate ineveryday speech, but not in formal, academic writing).

3. For source identification on papers, you may use Chicago Style(Turabians) or the MLA style of in-text citation. Please include abibliography. Plagiarism is categorically unacceptable and will


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automatically result in a failing grade for the assignment. If you are everunsure of whether or not you need to provide citation for a though, idea,or quote, be safe rather than sorryand provide documentation. ALL IDEASTHAT DO NOT ORIGINATE IN YOUR HEAD MUST BE CITED, WHETHER THEYARE IN QUOTES OR NOT.

4. Wherever possible, in papers as well as in class discussions, you mustuse inclusive language.

5. All papers should be proof-read by someone other than yourselfbeforethey are submitted for a grade.

*This document is used with permission from the author.[SAMPLE TITLE PAGE]

Transcending Ideology:

The Ideology of Immanence and the Theory of Religion

By Mark W. Flory

But he who today means to offer the transcendence of his being in ultimateseriousness must have subjected it to the ultimate self-examination, just

because the ultimate fate of mankind is at stake.-Karl Mannheim


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Study of Religions

Prof. Carl Raschke

November 20, 2000

[EXAMPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL FORMATTING FOR FOOTNOTES ANDBIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHICAGO STYLE]

FOOTNOTE FORMATTING

BOOKS:

Raoul Mortley, From Word to Silence II: The Way of Negation, Christian andGreek(Bonn: Peter Hanstein Verlag, GmbH, 1986), 18.

IF THE VERY NEXT NOTE CITES THE SAME TEXT, YOU MAY USE:

2 See Ibid., 128-130.

IF A LATER NOTE CITES THE SAME TEXT, YOU MAY USE:

3 Mortley, From Word to Silence II, 175-6.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Daniel So, Mystical Union and Deconstruction: a Critique of John CaputosAnalysis, Philosophy and Theology15:1 (2003): 12.

CHAPTER IN BOOK:

Henry Ruf, The Origin of the Debate over Ontotheology and Deconstructionin the Texts of Wittgenstein and Derrida, in Religion, Ontotheology, and

Deconstruction, ed. Henry Ruf (New York, NY: Paragon House, 1989),34-8.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMATTING

BOOKS:

Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the

Confessor. Trans. Brian E. Daley, S.J. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003.


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________. Mysterium Paschale. Trans. Aidan Nichols, O. P. Edinburgh: T & T Clark,

1990.

________. Origen: Spirit and Fire: A Thematic Anthology of His Writings. Tans. Robert

J. Daly, S. J. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1984.

Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth. The Place of the Heart: An Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality.

Trans. Fr. Stephen Bigham. Torrance: CA: Oakwood Publications, 1992.

Berry, Philippa and Andrew Wernick, eds. Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism andReligion. London: Routledge, 1992.

Blond, Phillip, ed.Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology. London:

Routledge, 1998.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

Caputo, John. Derrida and Marion: Two Husserlian Revolutions. InReligious

Experience and the End of Metaphysics. Ed. Jeffrey Bloechl. Bloomington and

Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003: 119-34.

________. The Good News About Alterity: Derrida and Theology.Faith andPhilosophy 10, 4 (October 1993): 453-70.

________. Richard Kearneys Enthusiasm: A Philosophical Explorationon The God Who May Be. Modern Theology18 (2002):87-94.

Carlson, Thomas A. The Poverty and Poetry of Indiscretion: Negative Theology

and Negative Anthropology in Contemporary and Historical Perspective.Christianity and Literature 47 (1998): 167-93.

Carroll, W.J. Participation and Infinity in Dionysius the Areopagite.Patristic and

Byzantine Review 2 (1983): 54-64.

Casiday, Augustine. St. Augustine on deification: his homily on Psalm

81. Sobornost23(2001): 23-44.

Cazabonne, Emmanuel, OCSO. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359): Monk, Theologian, and

Pastor. Cistercian Studies Quarterly 37, 3 (2002): 303-33.

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