In your paper, you must:
Provide a brief but relevant context / introduction about the subject matter;
State your thesis statement CLEARLY and then provide well-founded reasons/topic sentences to support your thesis statement. You must ensure that your position throughout the paper is CONSISTENT (this means that your topic sentences must support your thesis statement);
Illustrate your reasons with relevant examples, cross-country comparisons, statistics and/or quotations, to make your argument as convincing as possible. You should draw from our course materials and presentation discussions as much as possible.
Paper Guidelines
Your paper, double-spaced and using Times New Roman sized-12 font, one-inch margins all around, should be at least 2,500 words (around 8 pages) in length (this excludes the bibliography). It must be a well-polished piece of work that reflects a high standard of competency in the English language.
Plagiarism will NOT be tolerated, as per ZUs policy (this is outlined in your syllabus). Plagiarized papers (whole or in part) will automatically receive a failing grade.
Proper in-text citation according to the APA style (or MLA style) must be provided for sentences, facts or ideas borrowed from external sources. All bibliography used during research must also be listed accordingly. A guide on citation styles is available from the library. Papers with improper citations will be penalized.
Research for this assignment must demonstrate that you have used, understood and included a wide variety of sources including academic articles available through the Librarys electronic online database (Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, JSTOR etc), magazine/newspaper articles, books or encyclopedias. Blogs, yahooanswers, wikipedia etc are NOT academic sources. You must use AT LEAST ten academic sources.
The paper is worth 25% of your total course grade.
The assignment must be submitted electronically via Safeassign’: this icon is located on the Contents page of BB. It is your responsibility to ensure you receive an email acknowledgement from me confirming receipt of your submission.
The paper represents an individual effort, unlike the presentations which are group work. While you may share resources with a classmate who is working on the same topic, you must write the research paper yourself.