Analytical Paper #1: Descriptions
You are to prepare a Country Study of two states that you chose at the beginning of term. These states must be from different categories (liberal democracies, post- communist and communist states, new democracies, less-developed states, Islamic states, or marginal states). For example, you may choose to research France (a liberal democracy) and Guinea-Bissau (a marginal state), but you should not choose two states from the same category. Your instructor may want to suggest countries that would make suitable pairings for the study. You will need to examine several factors, all of which can be found in the CIA World Fact book located atwww.cia.gov. There are additional mega sites that offer information on individual states, such as the University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) atlanic.utexas.eduand Columbia University’s Comparative Studies Portal at:www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/compol
Students should use sources that are peer-reviewed, which means that other scholars have reviewed and approved the findings prior to publishing. There is no end of erroneous information on the Internet, so be careful in choosing your sources. Generally, anything with a .com suffix should not be used.
Research papers should be written using an APA style guide. The Writing Center site within the electronic library is a good source for citation help. (Seewww..edu/library/citationguides.shtml)
It is expected that all papers for this class will be error-free with grammar and usage style appropriate for university-level work. Points will be deducted if the professor has to stumble over mistakes in reading your work.
The research paper should be no more than 6 -8 pages in length (double-spaced), with approximately 8 outside sources
