Compose an essay of at least 2000 words but no more than 3000 words (not including your references list)

Question # 00001331 Posted By: JKM Updated on: 09/18/2013 10:03 AM Due on: 09/22/2013
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  • Compose an essay of at least 2000 words but no more than 3000 words (not including your references list) in which you discuss in depth the following topic, making sure to offer your critical thinking opinions (opinions plus reasons and evidence) of relevant ideas from the Weeks 1-4 readings wherever possible:

    Since its 1947 decision in Everson v. Board of Education (with an opinion written by Justice Hugo Black), the Supreme Court has further considered and limited the active role that religion or religious institutions can play in the public sphere—that is, on government property. In your essay, present an argument for one of the two following positions:

    (a) Faith groups and institutions should be allowed to form political parties and they should attempt to gain influence in the workings of government for their views and values by entering the realm of political discourse and attempting to elect their own politicians.

    (b) Faith groups and institutions should not be allowed to form political parties and they should not attempt to gain influence in the workings of government for their views and values by entering the realm of political discourse and attempting to elect their own politicians.

    Note: In answering these questions, you will specifically want to reference and critique, wherever possible, relevant ideas from the Week 1 readings on values; Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Jefferson, from Week 2; the Week 3 readings on interpretation of the Constitution, and the Week 4 readings listed above. You may also bring in up to five additional sources that you have found in your own research of the topic.

    Employ APA format for both in-text citations and your references list. Abstracts and running heads are not required. Use the Major Essay Grading Rubric for guidance on how to write this paper successfully and well.

    Very Important for All Students:All Major Essays must be submitted to Turnitin.com for a plagiarism check before you send them to your instructor through the Assignment area (this is explained in 3 below).

    1. Your instructor will provide you with the Class ID and the Password to your Turnitin.com class. You will then create an account at Turnitin.com. See the Turnitin.com Instructions in the Assignments area of your Cyberactive course for screenshots of how to create your account.
    2. Access the course and assignment your instructor has set up there. Post your essay.
    3. Submit your essay to your instructor in the Assignments area of the Cyberactive course (see instructions below) by 11:59 p.m. Central Time of the Sunday that ends Week 4.

    You’ll find the links to the Word documents of the Weeks 4, 8, and 12 assignments in the Assignments area, just as you have for the other assignments in the course. The blue underscored Week labels for those weeks are actually links.

    • When you are ready to submit your assignments, click on the appropriate black Week label.
    • A new page will open that will enable you to upload your assignment. Do not copy and paste them in the Submission box. Instead, scroll down a little further and click on Browse My Computer.
    • You’ll see a listing of the computer sites, folders, and files stored on your hard drive. Navigate to the place on which you have your Major Essay saved on your computer.
    • Select the file for your Major Essay. Click Open.
    • You should now see your Major Essay attached to this upload page.
    • Click the green Submit button.
    • Your essay will now be stored on the Cyberactive system. Only your instructor can see it. He/She will download it, save it to his/her hard drive, comment on it in interlinear fashion, grade it, upload it, and send it back to you.
    • You will see your grade in My Grades. When you click on the grade, a screen will open in which you can see the attached file of your instructor’s comments on your essay.

    The only Major Essay you will post to the Discussion Board for the class to see, as well, will be Major Essay 3 The Service Learning Project Report. It will be posted to the Week 12 Discussion Board forum after you’ve submitted it to Turnitin.com and sent it to your instructor through the Assignment area.

    Employ APA format for both in-text citations and your references list. Abstracts and running heads are not required. Use the Major Essay Grading Rubric for guidance on how to write this paper successfully and well.

    Important Assignment Guidelines: Not following these guidelines will have a negative impact on your grade for the week.

    1. Write in Arial font, size 14 (chosen from the drop-down menus on the create thread box in the Discussion Board forum), unless otherwise directed by your instructor.
    2. Reference specific ideas from at least the two readings that illustrate these values. Always name the author whose ideas you are discussing (use the author’s full name the first time you refer to him/her; after that, identify authors by their last names).
    3. Provide in-text citations for all ideas, opinions, and facts derived from the course readings, whether you simply refer to them, paraphrase them (put them entirely into your own words), or quote them. Place the in-text citation at the end of your sentence but before the period that ends your sentence. The in-text citation should give the author’s last name (unless you’ve used it already in your sentence), the year of publication (if known), and the appropriate page number(s) from the reading (if page numbers are used in the online text of the essay). Do not use the title of the reading unless it does not have an author).

    Here’s an example of a citation for the Thomas Paine reading for Week 1: (Paine, 1776).

    Here’s an example of a citation for the John Locke reading for Week 2: (Locke, 1689, pp. 46-47).

    1. Provide a References list at the end of your essay that includes bibliographic references for every reading cited in your essay.

    Note: Your references list does not count toward your minimum word count.

    Center the word References (do not underline it, place it in quotation marks, or place it in bold or larger size font).

    Present your references, listed alphabetically by author’s last name.

    Follow APA formatting guidelines for your list. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers excellent detailed explanations of APA Format requirements. This is the URL for the Purdue OWL:

    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1

     

     

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