Constitution Research Paper

PS 201 Hanson Fall 2018 RESEARCH PAPER Points Possible: 100 Points Papers must be turned in hardcopy only – no email submissions accepted – and must be handed in during class. Students must also submit papers using Turn It In analyzes your paper for originality and plagiarism, as well as grammar and spelling. I will be grading your research paper in conjunction with Turn It In and your hard printed copy. Requirements: Research papers must be a minimum of seven typed pages of content (no hand written papers accepted), not including the work cited page; Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced is the required format.

Try to avoid writing papers longer than ten pages of content. The page content requirement does not include graphs, pictures, charts, footnotes, large spacing and introductions, etc. Content is type-written information. Use Modern Language Association (MLA) Formatting and Style Guide, with proper parenthetical citations and a works cited page. On your works cited page, include the URL address of any WEB source. (This is an instructor requirement, as MLA allows an instructor’s choice on this matter.) If you need an MLA guide, use: Purdue Owl MLA Style Page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/ On citing your sources: When you put another person’s ideas into your own words, you must still indicate your source. When you directly use another person’s words or mix them in with our own words, you must use quotation marks for the other person’s words and indicate your source. When you integrate brief quotations (usually fewer than three lines) insert them into the normal sentence format. When using longer quotations, indent and single-space them. Be careful with this; do not plagiarize. Any academic information you discovered in your research, and are using the information in the paper, you must cite the source. Copying, cutting and pasting, and printing large sections of material in your paper, even with a citation, is not acceptable. This is considered plagiarism, and will not be tolerated A minimum of five separate sources of information are required to be cited and referenced in your paper. Only one of your sources can be an encyclopedia. Wikipedia may not be used as a source. (However it may be used as a preliminary reading to understand the depth of the phrase). Do not cite Wikipedia. Topic and Required Content