American politics current event
Humanities
Topic: Students will find a current (within the last 3 months) controversial issue in American National politics. The paper will describe the issue, discuss both/all sides of the issues, and provide the student’s position on the issue.The paper should be written as an unbiased report, think of me as an elected official and I need to come up with a position on the issue. I assign you to research and develop a position on the issue. You will want to make sure that I know the opposing sides’ best arguments so I can defend the position taken in the paper. Three outside sources are required for this assignment,encyclopedias and dictionaries do not count as sources.Topics that are excluded for this semester: Abortion, gun control,and Government shutdown.
Direction :Each paper MUST be a minimum of 1500 words and should not exceed 2500 words. All papers must be written in a paragraph format, typed double spaced, with one inch margins, a 12 CPI times new roman font, using in text citations, including page numbers, a title page, and a references page.Direct quotes should be kept to a minimum, on average a sentence or two or about four lines per page.
