Research Project, Spring 2022

 Pick one:

• If you are taking part in the legislative simulation, analyze your experience and explain your role's relationship to the party system. Even if you are representing an individual or group that is not officially partisan, do the positions of the individual or group serve one party better than the other?  If available, consider past testimony or legislative lobbying.   
• Write on another relevant topic of your choice.  Use your reflection email this week to describe your topic.

Either way, consult scholarly sources and cite primary-source material (e.g., debate transcripts, congressional documents, survey results, vote data).

• Review my research & writing page.
• Review my research lecture.

On April 4 and 6, you will make brief (7-8 minutes) oral presentations on your research in progress.

The specifications:

• Essays should be typed (12-point), double-spaced, and no more than six pages long. I will not read past the sixth page. Please submit papers as Word documents, not pdfs.
• Cite your sources. Please use endnotes in the format of Chicago Manual of Style. Endnotes do not count against the page limit. Please do not use footnotes, which take up too much page space. 
• Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you. Return essays (in Word format) to the Sakai dropbox for this class by 11:59 PM, Friday, April 16. Papers will drop one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.