United States Government
Research Paper Principles of Government
A research paper presents the results of your investigations on a selected topic. Based on your own thoughts and the facts and ideas you have gathered from a variety of sources, a research paper is a creation that is uniquely yours. The experience of gathering, interpreting, and documenting information, developing and organizing ideas and conclusions, and communicating them clearly will prove to be an important and satisfying part of your education.
A Statement on Plagiarism:
Using someone else's ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness, is a serious offense known as plagiarism. "Ideas or phrasing" includes written or spoken material, of course — from whole papers and paragraphs to sentences, and, indeed, phrases — but it also includes statistics, lab results, art work, etc. "Someone else" can mean a professional source, such as a published writer or critic in a book, magazine, encyclopedia, or journal; an electronic resource such as material we discover on the World Wide Web; another student at our school or anywhere else; a paper-writing "service" (online or otherwise) which offers to sell written papers for a fee.
Paper Set-up:
You will be using APA format. All material is to be sited correctly. Papers are due Tuesday for peer editing with final drafts due Thursday.
Cover page:
Title centered and middle. (In Bold)
Name
Date
Hour
NO PAGE NUMBER
First Page of Paper:
Page Numbers in Bottom Right Corner
Do not Change Margins
Indent one time
Introduction:
An introduction should present information that you are going to present. Captivate your audience. Do not list multiple facts save that for your body.
Body:
In your own words, express the concepts being covered. Make sure you are precise and accurate in your reflection of material.
Closure:
Recap and come to a closure. Do not introduce new material.
Citing Sources:
What you will need to include in your paper:
- What is government
- Include the three basic kinds of power
- What are four different types of government
i. Include both kinds of Dictatorships
- What is the purpose of government?
- Include justice, Domestic Tranquility, Perfect Union, and common defense, promote general welfare, and blessing of liberty
- How does the state fit into governments
- Explain the relationship between the legislative and executive branch
- How does a parliamentary government work
- Explain the foundation of a Democracy
- What concept does American Democracy have? (5 of them)
- Include the following: Worth of the Individual, Equality of all persons, Majority rule, minority rule, Compromise, and individual freedoms.
- Democracy and the Free Enterprise System
i. How it works