Political violence in Brazil
Here is a checklist to help ensure everyone’s term project will meet the minimum requirements for the course.
I ask that everyone read, re-read and re-re-read the full set of directions as well. If you just follow each step carefully, you will be fine. If you fail to meet the minimum requirements, you will not receive a grade for this assignment.
Term project checklist:
1. Read the questions that you need to answer carefully. Here they are, from the syllabus:
What are the different roles of violence in a political system, both in maintaining a particular political order and in bringing about political change?
When is violence more likely to be resorted to and why might it succeed? Is it sometimes necessary?
Your analysis should include discussions of contemporary problems in one specific political system, different ways the government authorities may resort to force, and the political culture of the selected state.
What are the potential resolutions to end the violence in the selected case study?
2. Include a visual component to your essay. This assignment requires the following visual elements from a scholarly source to communicate information:
A chart or graph must be fully described, explained, and applied to the essay topic in order to connect the essay argument(s) to the chart or graph.
Use of a visual image from an outside source to communicate information. The image must be fully described, explained, and applied to the essay topic in order to connect the essay argument(s) to the image.
Remember to fully cite in your bibliography where your chart, graph, or image came from.
3. Speaking of bibliographies, the sources for this project must be 3 peer-reviewed journal articles, they must have more than 5 pages of actual content and must be less than 10 years old (2007-2017).
You cannot use a government study, legislation, website, newspaper, or news magazine as a primary source for this project. You can use such materials as secondary sources, but the 3 peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles are a requirement.
When you are preparing a term paper, you must cite the highest quality sources. Also, remember that bibliographies are always alphabetical.
4. Make sure you include the page range the article appeared in the journal as required by both MLA or APA formatting.
I know it is a minor technicality, but it is important in the higher education environment to properly identify your sources. A journal article should be cited as follows (in MLA format):
Guideline: Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal (italicized) volume and issue number. Date of publication (in parenthesis): page numbers. Name of Database (italicized). Medium of publication (web). Date of access (day, month, year).
Example: Roberts, Kari. “Détente 2.0? The Meaning Of Russia’s ‘Reset’ With The United States.” International Studies Perspectives 15.1 (2014): 1-18. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 May 2015.
5. The paper is to be formatted with size 12 font (Arial or Times New Roman text), with 1 inch margins and double spaced. The paper must be in essay format, meaning no bullet points or numbered points. Also, be sure to have a cover page and a works cited page. All of the general formatting requirements are listed in Addendum II of the syllabus.
6. All sources must be cited both in the body of the essay and on the works cited page.
7. The minimum writing requirement is 1000 of your own words or about 3 pages (not including cited information), with research included the assignment should be around 5-6 pages. Do not use long quotes, one or two sentences from each source to support your key points will be sufficient.
It is strongly advised that you begin early, and perhaps show the final draft to one of the GOVT tutors. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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