Capital PunishmentOrder Description
1) Your paper should be 12 – 15 pages in length (NOT counting References and Title page, or any charts/graphs/lists.) One letter grade will be taken off for each page under 12 that you turn in.
2) As discussed, your paper must be over a specific modern topic/issue within the death penalty. (NOT YOUR PERSONAL OPINION ON THE DEATH PENALTY.) Only 1 or 2 paragraphs of your paper should review the history of the death penalty, or any discussion of basic death penalty facts. Failure to specify one topic (innocence, cost, deterrence, etc) will result in your grade being lowered by 2 letter grades.
3) You must use APA or ASA citation AND formatting and cite to everything that is not common knowledge. Failure to properly cite to your sources is considered plagiarism, and will be dealt with as such.
4) Papers must be typed and doubled spaced using Microsoft Word, a 12-pt. font, and 1-inch margins. Papers written using MS Works or other software will not be accepted.
5) Double space, spell check, and use correct grammar throughout the paper.
6) Since I have reviewed it with you, and you should be fully aware that APA frowns on it, I will be deducting 5 points f rom your overall grade for every mention of “We, I, In my opinion, My,” or any other such pronoun. Proof read carefully!
7) At least SIX independent, scholarly sources (texts and journal articles, cases, etc) and TWO Web sites must be cited as reference material for this research paper. Do not cite any of your school textbooks.
8) Since this is a �research paper,� you must demonstrate that you did research by the use of proper citations (no footnotes). Remember to include a separate �References� page, which is not included in the page count of your paper. It is perfectly acceptable to conduct some research online, but be sure to document these sources correctly and to assess their credibility before using them! Just as it is not acceptable to use tabloid newspapers as source material, neither is it proper to use Web sites that are not up to academic standards.
9) Do not submit a paper written for any other class.
10) Use NO MORE than 2 direct quotes from your research, and NO quotes over 40 words in length.
11) Use NO MORE than one chart OR list — and ONLY then, if it is something that is so unique it cannot be paraphrased. Regardless, any chart or list is NOT included in your page value.
( The thesis statement and what the paper is going to be about is “”Capital punishment in the United States should be abolished because of the extreme financial costs that arise from capital trials, appeals, and post-conviction housing of death row inmates.”
*Before sending me the final paper I need a rough draft of the first six pages with 3 original, independent, scholarly sources (NOTE that textbooks, blogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, etc., DO NOT COUNT), and 2 websites (NOT blogs, postings, Wikipedia or other wikis, etc.). The title page and reference page doesn’t count as the first six pages I need but I need them included as well.
