Application Guidelines
In order to be considered for the annual research prize, please submit the following by May 15, 2010:
- Application cover sheet (see form)
- Faculty letter of support (see form), emailed to Emily Daly
- Essay of 500-750 words describing research strategies and use of library tools and resources
- Hard copy of paper, including bibliography and appendices with name and faculty/course information removed, sent to Emily Daly
- Electronic copy of paper (PDF is preferred), including bibliography and appendices (identifying information need not be removed), emailed to Emily Daly
Please consider the following guidelines:
- All materials must be submitted to Emily Daly by May 15, 2010
- Papers should be paper clipped (not stapled) or placed in envelopes of folders. Papers should not be bound.
- All authors must be undergraduates
- Papers will be grouped into lower-level (first/second-year) and upper-level (third/fourth-year) categories based on the author’s class distinction at the time that the paper was written
- Honors theses completed by fourth-years shall be accepted for consideration and will be judged separately from all other papers
- Papers may take the form of a traditional research paper, as well as a digital project; emphasis is on students' use of library resources and their awareness of their research strategies, rather than the project’s format
- Papers must include internal citations and bibliographies, formatted according to bibliographic style requested by course instructor or preferred by student’s discipline and specified on application cover sheet
- Digital projects should be submitted in the desired format (e.g. URL of the final project, videotape, DVD). In addition, submit a printout of the first “page” or screenshot of the project, when possible
- Students may submit papers only once but may submit multiple papers in a given year. Each paper must be submitted individually and with an accompanying application cover sheet, essay and faculty letter of support
- Papers must be written for courses completed at Duke and using Duke’s libraries
- Papers written during terms spent abroad may be submitted, so long as students are enrolled at Duke during these terms and use Duke’s library resources for their research
- Drafts of papers will be accepted, so long as they reflect students’ research processes and their use of library resources
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