Monday, March 18, 2024

Research Assignment 2024

  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. This week, please email me a brief description.  Let me know if you need suggestions.
Either way, consult scholarly sources and cite primary-source material (e.g., debate transcripts, congressional documents, survey results, vote data).
On April 2 and 4, 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 essays 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.
  • Misrepresenting AI-generated content as your own work is plagiarism and will result in severe consequences.
  • Please read my comments on your previous papers.  Repetition of errors makes me grouchy.
  • Return essays to the Sakai dropbox for this class by 11:59 PM, Friday, April 12. I reserve the right to dock papers one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.

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