Assignment:
All information from sources must be cited (for examples of acceptable borrowing and plagiarism, see
https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/cssa556/CIVHON556.htm
In the bibliography, list all references by alphabetical order of the last name of the first author. If you are not familiar with a standard reference style, use the style of the American Economic Review see
https://www.aeaweb.org/sample_references.
pdf or the citations on the reading list. If you use internet sources, include the web address, name of the author, title of the paper, date of the paper, and institutional association of the website, paper or author. If it is a government or university website, the information generally has more credibility than if it comes from an individual website.
For the first assignment, you will submit three or more references. For the final paper, the number of sources that you will need depends upon the substance of the information in your sources. You might need as few as 6-8 academic sources (journal articles, book chapters, books). The more advanced your sources, the higher your potential grade for the assignment.
When you submit your final paper, include your earlier assignments (with my comments) in a packet. Also submit a 1 page cover sheet explaining changes to the earlier drafts that have been incorporated into your final paper. The final paper should contain the following sections:
· Introduction
· Review of the literature
· Analysis of the literature
· Conclusion
· References ?
The Introduction should contain a statement of the central question to be addressed in the paper. In the Review of the Literature you revise the Summary of the Literature in light of feedback from
Assignment 2.
For the Analysis of the Literature section, you really need to think for yourself at a high level. You assess whether or not the evidence in the various articles is unbiased and valid. Which readings are more credible? What does the weight of the evidence say regarding an answer to the original question? In the Conclusion, you briefly summarize the paper and state your major findings about the central question. ?
The length of the final paper is 10 double-spaced pages of text including references, with 12-point font size and 1" margins