Essays are to be submitted electronically by emailing the convener as follows:
Subject: Social psychology essay submission
If you use this subject line, you will get an automatic email as a receipt of confirmation; otherwise, you will get a manual email receipt within 24 hours. Keep a copy of this email and your original email. If you do not get an email receipt within 24 hours, you should contact the convener.
Message: Your name and student ID and/or Wikiversity user name.
Attachment: Provide a single file (.rtf, .doc, .docx format), or .odt) which consists of:
There is no minimum length; maximum is 3000 words.
Essays above the word count limit (3000 words) will incur a penalty (5% per 100 words).
There is no 10% over allowance - if you need this, aim for 2,700 words!
Word count = body text (i.e., all essay body text and in-text citations, but not title, abstract, tables, figures, references (i.e., the reference list), or appendices).
For anyone dissatisfied with the marking/grading and/or feedback received, please see these suggested steps: marking dispute process
One way to think about an essay is as a house, built upon a solid (theoretical) foundation, with arguments and evidence (pillars) supporting your answer (the roof) to a question.
