General Instructions on Essay Writing, political science homework help

Essay Due date:  Tuesday, April 26 at final exam or before. Provide me with a paper (stapled) copy of your essay and post it on Canvas

General Instructions on Essay Writing: 

Write an essay that is a minimum* of 1000 words in length for ONE of the essay prompts below. DO NOT use quotes in your essays. Do not include the essay question itself in your essay answer. Identify the word length of your essay by placing the word length next to the essay number at the top of the essay (Essay # 1, word length 1024).  Do not use a cover page nor abstract.

*If an essay has fewer than 1000 words, its score will be multiplied by the proportion of its length to the minimum of required length to calculate its score.

Do not plagiarize or use anyone else’s work— intentionally or unintentionally.

Sources to Consult to Write Your Essay

To write your essay, consult your class lectures, course power points, textbook, Module materials, Mindtap materials and EchoVideos.  You may use additional news stories, from the sources listed below. If you find an article/video clip/film/website you want to use but it is not listed below, you must EMAIL ME in Canvas with the source’s URL and receive my approval before using it.

Approved outside news sources: the CIA handbook, the UN website, the EU website,: The New York Times, the BBC, the Christian Science Monitor, Vox.com, PBS, NPR, The Economist, The Washington Post.

Use of any non-approved outside materials (including Wikipedia) will result in an automatic grade of “zero” for your essay.

In-Text Citations and References Page

Use in-text citations for all information/points you state that are not generally known. These in-text citations do not count for the essay word length.

For in-text citations use the following abbreviations for course materials:

·  For the textbook, use (K&B, pp. #),

·  For power-point Echo-video lectures, use (EV M #, V #)—meaning Echo Video lecture Module number, Video number

·  For Power Point Slides, use (ppt M #, ss # , s #—–), Power Point Module number, slide set number, slide(s) number(s)

·  For films, PBS videos and video clips, use M# and an abbreviated name of film/video/video clip; for films/videos not on Canvas, list and number them on the “References” page under the heading “Flims/Videos/Clips Used.” Provide their complete citation and include the URL. Use (F/V # (on references list) ) for in-text citations.

·  For articles/websites posted on Canvas or from approved sources, list and number each on the “References” page under the heading “News Articles/Websites Used.” Provide their complete citation and include the URL. Use (NA # (on the references list) for in-text citations.

Apply Course Concepts/Theories in Your Essay  (THESE WILL BE ADDED BY 4/16/16)

In your essay, use/apply a minimum of 15 concepts/terms/theory you have learned in Modules Four, Five, Six and Seven.  A list of the concepts/terms/theories you should understand are listed below. Use these concepts in a meaningful way so that I can be sure you understand each concept/term/theory and you can use it appropriately.  Simply including the name of a concept or theory isn’t sufficient evidence of this.  For those terms you use explicitly, bold the term each place where you use it in the essay. For terms you use without explicitly identifying them, place each term in parentheses at the end of the sentence(s) where you apply it (term). In-text notation of the terms used does not count for the essay word length.

Writing Style and Format

For each essay, write using the “active” (not “passive”) voice, use complete sentences, cohesive paragraphs, and appropriate word usage, punctuation, grammar and spelling.  Review the two documents–one on writing an essay and the second on what is and isn’t plagiarism— taken from Purdue University’s On-line Writing Lab posted in this Exam Module. Go to the Purdue OWL website to review the rules on writing cohesive paragraphs, writing with an “active” not passive voice, and writing using correct word usage, punctuation and grammar.

The format of your essay should be as follows:

First) an introductory paragraph presenting a thesis statement that responds to the essay question;

Second) the essay body that has a number (three or four?) of cohesive paragraphs. In each of these paragraphs a sub-point is presented providing evidence and explanation supporting the essay’s thesis statement (presented in the introduction).  The sub-point statement is typically presented in the first one or two sentences of the paragraph and the remainder of the paragraph presents the evidence and explanation supporting the sub-point; and

Third) a conclusion in which the sub-points are tied together to refer back to and address the essay’s thesis statement presented in the essay’s introductory paragraph.

Essay Prompt # 2 – Discuss the following questions in one coherent essay; how you organize it is up to you. Make sure you and your classmate friends do not select the same essay question to answer.

There are benefits and costs for the U.S. in being the world’s single hegemonic state.

·  What are these benefits and costs (discuss in detail)?

·  If the U.S. was not the single hegemonic state, what alternative global world power structure would be best for the U.S.? With which states would it be best for the U.S. to share hegemonic status (Russia, China, India….? Why?)

·  What about for the World? What world power structure is best for the world? Why? What state(s) should have hegemonic status in this world power structure? Why? What would be the effects on the U.S. if we had the world power structure you select and the state(s) you select has/have hegemonic status? 

 

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