Term Paper Format P2 P4

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Template Version: 2016.06.23

Title of Your Final Paper

Subtitle of Your Final Paper

Group A

Taro RITSUMEI [2013471-5]

Department of *,

College of *,

Ritsumeikan University

Class * – Final Paper

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*, 20XX

Keywords

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Abstract

This section is for Abstract. Abstract tells an overview of your paper, which is supposed to include main arguments and to emphasize significance of your study. Abstract must be within this page.

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Introduction

Write your Introduction here. It is recommended to confirm that your Introduction consists of the following components: Introductory Part, Thesis Statement, and Chapter Outline. Among these three, Thesis Statement is the most important, because it expresses what your paper is all about in one or two sentences.

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1. The samples of chapter components

The purpose of this chapter is to show the samples of what general chapters should have in common, such as quotation, figure, table and so on. If you mention or quote something written or made by someone else in the passage, you need to cite it in a designated way.

According to OALD (2010), the word citation is defined as “an official statement about sth special that sb has done, especially about acts of courage in a war.”

In addition, if you quote something, it should be written as follows:

It is plain that commodities cannot go to market and make exchanges of their own account. We must, therefore, have recourse to their guardians, who are also their owners Commodities are things, and therefore without power of resistance against man. (Marx, 1887)

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2. Do’s and don’ts in academic writing

Not only text but also other types of data should be shown in a particular way. They include figures, tables, and graphs. Regardless of the data type, no matter how big or small they are, they should be placed in one line respectively. For example, as is shown in Figure 1 below, there should be a blank line both above and below an inserted figure.

Figure 1 Sample Figure

In case of inserting a table, it is quite common to insert a caption above it, not below, as shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Sample Table

Cell 1 Cell 2

Cell 3 Cell 4

The next section, References, is a list of the data used in the paper.

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Conclusion

What you should do in Conclusion is summarize the discussion you have made so far and emphasize your thesis statement again. You should not add new ideas in Conclusion because this is the last part that concludes your paper.