Written Assignment:A large component of this course is learning how to become proactive citizens and actively participate
n government.The written assignment will help you to do that. This assignment is worth 15% or 15 points of your overall
course grade for POLS 2301.Students are required to submit this assignment for a grade in POLS 2301 or be penalized 15%.
tudents may NOT submit assignments after the DUE date and TIME has passed nor may assignments be submitted that are
handwritten or assignments that have been submitted for other courses(including this course if you are taking it again even
with a different instructor). Students must upload a Microsoft Word version of the assignment to Blackboard via SAFE
ASSIGN by 6pm on Friday,April 22. Failure to upload the document to Blackboard will result in an automatic ZERO given
or the assignment.The written assignment will meet the THECB core curriculum assessment.Absolutely no late
assignments will be accepted.
tudents are required to submit one written assignment during the course of the semester.The expected content of the Issignment is set forth below.The written essays must be submitted electronically by the student into the course Safe Assign system.The essay MUST be uploaded as a Microsoft Word file,no other formats are acceptable. THE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT IS DUE NO LATER THAN THE DATE AND TIME SET FORTI ON THE COURSE SCHEDULE, ABOLUTELY NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
MPORTANT NOTE:Students are NOT allowed to submit papers they have written for any other course including
written assignments and papers submitted in POLS 2301/2302. If a student is retaking POLS 2301 for a grade
eplacement,the student is NOT allowed to submit a paper previously submitted in any POLS 2301 course or any other
ourse.Submission of a paper previously submitted by you or any other student in any other course will arpear in
afeAssign and be considered by the instructor to be plagiarized. A paper submitted in this course -written by the
tudent or any other person-that appears in any other course will result in an assignment score of zero.Ycur name and
work will be submitted into a permanent file marked “plagiarism” and may be used by the instructor or subsequent
nstructors for evidence of one-time or repeated plagiarism and may be used as evidence of academic dishonesty
esulting in expulsion from Lamar University.
Your essay must include a title page containing your name,POLS 2301. Written Assignment (wth an essay title-you need to produce one),semester,and the date of your submission of the assignment through Safe Assign.(The title page is not included as a numbered page and your essay should meet the page number requirement exclusive of the cover page.)Failureto include a title/cover page will result in an automatic score of a sero on the written assignment.
Your written assignment should include page numbers.
Your written assignment should be typed and double spaced with 12-point font (Times New Roman suggested) and one inch margins on the top.bottom and both sides. Please do NOT use block quotes in your paper.Direct quotes can be used but they should NOT be more than two sentences long.
Correct grammar,capitalization,and complete sentences are required for this assignment.
The written assignment MUST be uploaded as ONE document(title page,essay,works cited should all be in the SAME document).Students can find the link to submit their written assignment by clicking“Written Assignment” under the “Content” tab in the left-hand column of the course,then clicking “SafeAssign Instructions and Written Assignment Submission” and then click “Term Paper-Safe Assign-Upload paper HERE.”Students may NOT submit the assignment via email inside or outside the course Blackboard system.Students may not cut and paste essays into the assignment window-the assignment MUST be uploaded as a WORD document and MUST be in ONE file.Do NOT upload more than one written assignment document.The system will only allow you to select ONE file,so make sure that file is the combined cover page,paper,AND works cited. Assignments uploaded in any format other than WORD,such as a PDF, RTF,ZIP, PAGES, etc., will automatically receive an overall assignment score of a zero.Assignments submitted only via email will automatically receive a zero as will assignments submitted outside of Safe Assign.Assignments must also be submitted through the Global Reference Database,failure to check that box will result in an automatic 50% deduction in your assignment grade.Please note that information provided on the Wikipedia website is open to submission by any
Write a three-to-five-page essay containing the following:
1.Cover page
2.An introductory paragraph containing a brief description of three subject areas studied this semester that you found most interesting and’or informative and why you found this to be interesting and important, and a statement about a contemporary political problem or issue related to the course that will be discussed in greater detail later in the paper.
- Body Paragraphs-Discussion of the three subject areas identified in your introduction. Citations and specific academic information gained from the course MUST be provided in both the body of the text and in the bibliography.The ihree subject areas you discuss MUST be from POLS 2301 and cannot be topics studied in POLS 2302 (ie.,Congress,Presidency,Supreme Coun, Governors,State Legislatures,Economic Foreign Domestic Policy,Publie Policies,Bill of Rights,Supreme Court Cases,etc.).Subject areas should focus on topies listed in the syllabus and they SHOULD NOT BE ONE OF THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. Please note, your subject areas must be distinct, specific and must pertain to POLS 2301. In other words, you cannot write on three articles in the U’S Constitution or three rights listed in the Bill of Rights. Rather, one topic could be the U’S Constitution and the various articles ofthe U’S Constitution could be addressed and may be used to communicate your knowledge ofthe topic. It would be best if your topies were from different chapters of the lextbook.Please be certain that your topics are distinet so that you can clearly demonstrate your knowledge of the subjects.Ideally,your topies should be from different chapters in the textbook and should NOT all be from just the Texas chapters or all from ONE of the US Chapters.
- Identify,discuss,and describe a specific contemporary political problem in one or more of the three subject arcas examined/studied in POLS 2301 fi.e.,US Constitution, federalism, political parties,the media,interest groups, campaigns, and elections). Citations and specific academic information gained from the course MUST be provided in both the body of the text and in the bibliography. If you include a reference in your bibliography, it MUST be eited in the paper. Subject areas should foeus on topics listed in the syllabus. An example of a proper in-texI citation is: (Davis, p. 18, 2018). An example of a proper citation in your Works Cited page is Davis,Terri and James P.Nelson,The Texas Constitution:The People.History,and Government of the Lone Star State.Lamar Literary Press,2017.
- Construct and communicate a solution to the problem you identified (above). It would be helpful if the problem is related to the topics covered in the course this semester.Make sure to develop and express your