Doing the Research Project Over

If you earned a grade lower than A on your project you may want to do it over. When I returned your projects I attached a page or two of comments, some relating to your thesis statement, to other ancient sources you need to consult, to modern authorities you need to consult, or a combination of these. If you successfully address every item on the comments page(s) (including providing full and proper bibliographical information) and hand in your revised results by the end of classes this spring, you will earn an A on the project. Here are the rules:

1. You must do this work yourself without further input from the instructor; since I have already researched each topic myself and given you the results of the research, all you need to do is find the required items and read and evaluate them (and in some cases, rewrite your thesis statement).

2. When you hand in your revised project, return the original project plus my comments along with your appendix of additional information. You may rewrite the whole thing if you wish, but you must still turn in the original. You will receive all of these things back at the final.

3. In all cases, I gave you references to modern scholarship containing articles in learned journals, some available through JSTOR, some not available through JSTOR or elsewhere online but available in print at UVM library, some not available at UVM library. I have used standard abbreviations for these journals. If you don't remember how to find out what the abbreviation means, look it up in the instructions for how to use L'Année philologique. Then check Voyager under journal titles to see if UVM library has the journal in question. If it does not, you need to order the article through interlibrary loan. The instructions for using L'Année philologique also tell you how to use that publication to help make your interlibrary loan request proceed more smoothly.

Example 1: Skeat, Theodore Cressy, "The Egyptian calendar under Augustus," ZPE 135 (2001) 153-156. The abbreviation ZPE = Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. UVM library has this. Exceptionally, bound volumes are not found in the periodicals room at the library but in the regular stacks.

Example 2: Ramage, Edwin S., "The 'bellum iustum' in Caesar's 'De Bello Gallico'," Athenaeum 89 (2001) 145-170. The periodical Athenaeum is not in UVM library, therefore get the 2001 volume (volume 72) of L'Année philologique and find the entry for this article. It is probably easiest to search under Ramage in the index of authors (i.e. modern authors) in the back. You will find this is entry number 01073; this translates into an accession number of 72-01073 for purposes of interlibrary loan.

4. Do not wait too long to get started, especially if you need book(s) or article(s) through interlibrary loan, or if you will need to use any book(s) that UVM has but that another student (or faculty member) has already checked out. If a book you need is not on the shelf, recall it. Although there is always a waiting period associated with this process, if you begin right now you will get the book(s) you need before the end of the semester. If you are not able to get all of the required materials on time you will lose points unless you can demonstrate that you started trying to get something before the end of March and found that by the end of April it had still not become available.