American National Government Essay
Description
For each exam students will be randomly assigned to write essays pertaining to that exam’s topics. You can access essay questions by logging into Blackboard and clicking on discussion board. You must write your responses in your own words, in essay format, after having completed the necessary readings and other research that pertains to the topic. After completing your own post, you should read the posts of all of your classmates. I will provide comments on each person’s post, and these comments, along with the student essays, will be a source of questions for the exam. To receive credit, you must answer the question asked of you by the deadline. Your answers should be thoughtful and insightful, you must cite your sources, and your sources cannot include wikis, blogs, or other unreliable sources. The best rule is to verify a source in 3 independent sources in order for it to hold any credibility, although this in and of itself is not a guarantee that the information is factual. All of the following steps must be met in order for the essay to be accepted and graded: 1) It must be double-spaced typed in 12 pt font, Times New Roman, with 1 inch margins and numbered. 2) It must be submitted on time! 3) It must be AT LEAST 3 pages long and no longer than 4. At least 3 pages means that you start at the top of the page and go all the way to the bottom of each page (not including header information). 4) You must use AT LEAST 3 credible sources that must be listed at the end in a reference page. 5) You must properly cite the paper using APA format. The reference page and title page do not count as part of your 3 pages. 6) The paper should be written formally and be grammatically correct. 7) When you submit the paper, you must copy and paste it into Discussion board as a response to your topic AND post it as an rtf or .doc file. (Please no PDFS!!) The paper will be checked for plagiarism using safeassign. 8) The paper cannot be all or mostly in quotation marks. 9) The paper should have a cover page which is not included in the 3 page count. The topic is: Using the Miller Test, explain how speech is determined to be obscene or pornographic. What are the problems with reaching those conclusions?
