What type of volcano is a. Mt St Helens b. Kilauea c. Mt Fuji?
What type of volcano is a. Mt St Helens b. Kilauea c. Mt Fuji?
What does it mean for a volcano to be in a quiet stage?
What does it mean for a volcano to be in a quiet stage?
Where are the most explosive and dangerous volcanoes found?
Where are the most explosive and dangerous volcanoes found?
What are the risks if the volcano should suddenly erupt- list all that would apply to
- If you build a home close to a large snowcapped dormant volcano- what are the
risks if the volcano should suddenly erupt- list all that would apply to this type of
Who is this author and what are his/her credentials?
Questions For Secondary Source Analysis #1 (Please Choose Only One Article from those listed below, all are in the course pack)
- Kathleen Brown’s The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch (Section 1, p.37)
- Philip Morgan’s The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and Blacks (Section 2, p. 73)
- Sylvia Frey’s The Impact of African American Resistance During the War (Section 3, p. 91)
- Edmund Morgan’s Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox (Section 4, p. 116)
Based on your reading of one of the four above articles (all are in the course pack), answer the following questions in detail, save as a .doc or .pdf, and place submit by the due date.
ANALYZING A SECONDARY SOURCE
1. Who is this author and what are his/her credentials? (you may have to do a little research here)
2. Who are the key people in this article?
3. What are the key events?
4. What are the key subjects?
5. Is this article based on primary sources or other secondary sources?
6. Name one primary source the historian uses.
7. What is the main argument or thesis?
8. How does the writer build her/his argument?
9. How would you critique or question this argument?
*Remember, you will be graded on the depth of your analysis and the detail of your answers.
Are prosecutors misleading the public when they claim a 90% conviction rate???
- Choose your argument:
- Prosecutors are abusing the use of plea bargains to bypass the Sixth Amendment’s right to confront witnesses, while inflating their conviction rates.
- Prosecutors are not abusing the use of plea bargains or violating the Sixth Amendment as a means of increasing their conviction rates.
- Support your position by (1) referencing scholarly sources (LexisNexis law review articles or academic scholarly articles from LIRN) and (2) referencing one current news event (less than five years old).
- Draft a response that adheres to this four-paragraph essay format:
- Introduction (brief introduction of your argument and support).
- Summary of scholarly articles and how its findings support your argument.
- Summary of current news event (less than three years old) and a thorough analysis on how it supports the arguments drafted in the previous paragraph.
- Conclusion (summarize findings to support argument).
GUIDELINES:
- Properly formatted citations are required through-out the essay.
- This essay must flow coherently, connecting the “dots” coherently and logically. Transitions between paragraphs are crucial in maintaining that flow.
- Draft your response in a doc file, preferably Google Docs to ensure that it does not get lost. Submit the doc file as an attachment.
- Review the materials used from sources. Did you copy the content? Is it paraphrased? Basically, this entire essay must come from sources. None of it can possibly come from your personal, first-hand, empirical study. Therefore, each paragraph will require several citations.
- Legal studies students follow Bluebook Practitioner Rules (fully embedded citations). All other students follow APA rules (embedded in-text cites linked to an alphabetical “references” list of all sources). Refer to the CITATION files in the Student Success Folder.
- Formatting: Double-space. One-inch margins: top, bottom, left, and right. Font: Times New Roman, black, size 12.
- Proofread before final submission. Refer to WRITING files in the Student Success Folder.
GRADING CRITERIA:
- Content (40%): Response must be thorough and original; the analysis must come from the sources researched in Week Three. If sources cited are not from the FNU Library or LexisNexis, or if no sources are provided at all, there will be a 20-point deduction from the “Content” grade.
- Sources (30%): All sources used must be primary authority or secondary scholarly from the FNU Library or LexisNexis. Sources obtained from any other search engine are unacceptable and will result in zero-points for the “Sources” grade.
- Citations (20%): All citations must be properly formatted to meet APA, Bluebook Practitioner Rules, or Bluebook Law Review Rules. Pay close attention to the in-text and References Page requirements of APA, or, the total embedding of citations within content when following Bluebook (remember, Bluebook does NOT allow for a “references” list to be submitted; they are not placed at the bottom of a response, at the bottom of a page, or at the end of the document).
- Grammar & Professionalism (10%): Response must be proofread and edited to meet college-level writing expectations. The overall presentation of your document must be professional (remove hyperlinks, change fonts to Times New Roman, 12, black font, create a cover page, format the entire file to one-inch margins all-around.
- Do not use I, you, we, or us.
- Do not use contractions.
- Do not submit a response without credible sources & properly formatted citations.
- The scholarly source for paragraph ii must come from LexisNexis or FNU’s LIRN Database. The current news event for paragraph iii must come from a reputable news website, for example, CNN, NBC, ABC.
