PoliticalScience week 5 Assignment
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Week 5 Assignment: Current Event – Totalitarian
Restric!ons or Ethnic Conflict
Due Monday by 1:59am Points 100 Submitting a file upload
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Instructions
Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian
state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this
issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this
issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?
Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations.
Articles may not be more than one month old.
Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.
Textbook: Chapters 8, 9
Lesson (https://library.chamberlain.edu/APA)
Citation and Writing Assistance: Writing Papers At CU
(https://library.chamberlain.edu/APA)
Library Overview (https://library.chamberlain.edu/Learn)
How to Search for Articles – the Everything Tab
(https://library.chamberlain.edu/HowToSearch)
Article (no more than one-month old) from reputable news source such as The New York
Times or The Washington Post
Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)
1-inch margins
Double-Spaced
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POLI330 Week 5 International Event Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
5.0 pts
25.0 pts
Grading
This activity will be graded based on the Assignment Grading Rubric.
Course Outcomes (CO): 3 & 5
Due Date for Follow-Up Posts: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday
12-point Times New Roman font
Title and Reference page required
APA cite article with link
Scan copy of article required
Identifies
Newspaper
Article
5.0 pts
The student uses a
newspaper article
which is not more
than thirty days old
and is on topic.
4.0 pts
The student
provides an
on topic
article, but it
is not timely.
3.0 pts
The student
provides a
timely
article, but it
is not on
topic.
0.0 pts
The student
did not
identify a
relevant or
timely
article.
Summarization 25.0 pts
The student
clearly
describes
all of the
main points
in the
article.
20.0 pts
The student
clearly
describes
most of the
main points
in the article.
17.5 pts
The student
describes some of the
main points in the
article, but the
descriptions may lack
clarity or depth.
0.0 pts
The
student did
not
summarize
any main
points in
the article
Identifies How
Affected
25.0 pts
The student
identifies how
the issue
20.0 pts
The student
identifies how
the issue
17.5 pts
The student
attempts to
identify how the
0.0 pts
The
student did
not identify
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25.0 pts
10.0 pts
25.0 pts
5.0 pts
relates to the
global
community
accurately with
significant
supporting
details.
relates to the
global
community
accurately, but
lacks sufficient
supporting
detail.
issue relates to
the global
community, but
description is
unclear or
inaccurate.
how the
issue
relates to
the global
community.
Evaluates
Source
Credibility
10.0 pts
The student
accurately
evaluates the
creditability of
the source.
8.0 pts
The student
somewhat
accurately
evaluates the
creditability of
the source.
7.0 pts
The student
inaccurately
evaluates
creditability
of the source.
0.0 pts
The student
does not
evaluate the
creditability
of the source.
What/How
Outside
Influences
Might Help
Change Issue
25.0 pts
The student
provides a
detailed
account of
how outside
forces could
change the
issue.
20.0 pts
The student
gives a
somewhat
detailed
account of
how outside
forces might
change the
issue.
17.5 pts
The student
attempts to provide
an account of how
outside forces
could change the
issue, but it is
unclear or
inaccurate.
0.0 pts
The student
provides no
account of
how
outside
forces
could
change the
issue.
APA 5.0 pts
The paper is
formatted and
referenced
according to
APA
standards.
4.0 pts
The paper is
formatted
according to APA
standards, but not
referenced in APA
style.
3.0 pts
The paper is
referenced
according to APA
standards, but not
in APA paper
format.
0.0 pts
No
APA
style
or
format
was
used.
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Total Points: 100.0
5.0 pts
Writing 5.0 pts
The student
presents
info5rmation
using clear
and concise
language in
an organized
manner
(minimal
errors in
English
grammar,
spelling,
syntax, and
punctuation).
4.0 pts
The student
presents
information
using
understandable
language, but
is somewhat
disorganized
(some errors in
English
grammar,
spelling,
syntax, and
punctuation).
3.0 pts
The student
presents
information
using
understandable
language, but
is very
disorganized
(many errors in
English
grammar,
spelling,
syntax, and
punctuation).
0.0 pts
The student
presents
information
that is not
clear, logical,
professional
or organized
to the point
that the reader
has difficulty
understanding
the message
(numerous
errors in
English
grammar,
spelling,
syntax, and/or
punctuation).
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