Submissions must have been created as part of an SU course during the previous calendar year (either the winterim, spring, summer, or fall semester). There are three required elements:
The project itself, which encompasses any creative or scholarly work that includes research, not just research papers.
For example, if research was used to create:
- clothing or accessories
- a business plan
- a science experiment
- arguments for a debate
- a theatre set
- a documentary film
- a graphic novel
then those projects are all possible submissions.
The research essay, which gives the author(s) an opportunity to describe the research process. Here are some guidelines:
- The essay may include but is not limited to discussion of the following: how library resources and services helped, other resources explored, what criteria were used to select the sources, difficulties encountered, and what was learned.
- This should be a narrative essay, not a numbered list or a list of questions and answers.
- If two or more students are entering as a group, the research essay must include the names of all group members.
- The essay should be ~500 words long.
A correctly-formatted bibliography/works cited/list of references, which should be in a recognized style (APA, MLA, Chicago, CSE, ACS, etc.) appropriate to the content of the project and the discipline.
