For this assignment you are to chose 1 candidate who is running for office. This can be anyone who is running for federal office (President, Senate, House of Representatives) or any Texas position. In your paper you must: provide some background on the candidate (e.g. their experience such as is this their first elected position? have they held office before?
Qualifications?), and what their position is on 2 issues. This can be any 2 issues–ones they talk about a lot, ones important to them/their constituents/you, ones easy to find.
formatting: 4-5 pages, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman Font with 1 inch margins all around. Works Cited does NOT count towards the page requirement. Title pages are optional but do NOT count towards the page requirement. The 4-5 pages is strictly based on content.
Papers are to be uploaded by June 24, end of day. Papers will be checked for plagiarism. You should aim to have 3 credible sources. Late papers are accepted but penalized -5% per 24 hours late.
I do not care what style of citations you use internally in your paper as long as you have them and are consistent. An easy style is Chicago in-text citations. After you make a reference to someone’s work you use last name year of publication and page number if it’s a direct quote (Gregory, 2022). You MUST have internal citations—no citations is a form of plagiarism. You do not innately know information about the elected official you pick. The use of Al software to write your paper is a form of plagiarism and will receive a 0 and be sent to the appropriate university officials for conduct violation.
Finally, just a reminder I don’t care which elected officials you chose or which policy issues you talk about. You are graded on accuracy of information (based on the sources you use) and the quality of writing.
