What kinds of projects are successful?
Both students and faculty are strongly encouraged to look at past projects in the Scholars’ Bank repository. This is an undergraduate research award, so the review committee looks for projects that make an original contribution to the discipline, demonstrating originality of thought, mastery of content, clear writing, and quality of presentation suitable for publication. In general, projects such as annotated bibliographies that are designed primarily to teach library research skills and/or expose students to scholarly resources in the discipline do not meet the criteria, although they may be very library intensive. The committee looks for projects that apply these skills in the conduct of original research and scholarship in the discipline. Winning projects must be ready for publication as submitted. Scholar’s Bank is rapidly indexed by search engines, including Google Scholar, so winning projects have a high degree of visibility to the community beyond the campus. Student authors and
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