What is the Final Essay?
Political Science 1020 is an Essay course, so you must research, write and submit a 3,000-word Final Essay. The Essay is an Argumentative essay with Arguments, Objections and Replies. It should have a Thesis, or central argument/claim, 2-3 major arguments in support of the Thesis and supported with evidence and sources. To help you with this, you will complete and submit the Essay Outline and will receive comments and a grade.
What is the Length of the Final Essay?
The Essay should be 3,000 words. The maximum is 3,200 3,300 words. The minimum permissible length is 2,900 2,700 words. Below 2,900 2,700 or over 3,200 3,300, at the discretion of the Professors and/or TAs, will receive a penalty of -5%. Still, essays significantly above the maximum or woefully below the minimum may also be generally downgraded heavily and quite possibly failed.
Essay topic:
Is a public healthcare system or private healthcare system better? Compare 2 countries (I chose to compare Canada and the USA.
How many Academic Scholarly Articles and Books should I use in the Final Essay?
As many as will help you make your arguments strong, evidenced, cited and proven, as well as opposing argument credibly presented and refuted. Still, you need to have used at least 7 academic scholarly articles and/or scholarly book. If you don’t have at least 7 used in your Essay, a penalty of -5% will be applied. To help you with this, you will complete and submit the Essay Bibliography, and will receive comments and a grade.
How should I format the Essaay?
Your Essay should be in 12-point Arial or Helvetica or Verdana or Calibri (avoid Times or Bookman, if possible, but no grades are lost for using a Serif font) font and should be double-spaced and left-justified.
Generally, please format using 1” margins, so your essay will be about 7-9 pages. Bibliography/Works Cited go at the end of the essay. Note that we use Word Count so squeezing or expanding your margins serves no useful purpose at all.
NO subheadings; learn to use Transitions between paragraphs and major sections.
Do I have to provide a Bibliography or Works Cited?
You must include a Bibliography (Chicago) or Works Cited (MLA) identifying, in alphabetical order by surname, the readings you used in writing your essay. If you divide up your sources by source type (book or article), that is okay, although, technically not correct but you won’t lose marks.
If you do not provide a bibliography, you will receive a –10% penalty.
The follwing files linked below include:
– Essay instructions pdf
– Essay writing approach pdf
– Citation formating pdf
– The Polysci essay outline consists of writing I have previously done for my chosen topic. My chosen tiopic is, Is a public healthcare system or private healthcare system better? Compare 2 countries. Feel free to change any of my arguments and use different scholarly resources.
