Research Project: Final Paper Rubric BUS 201, M. Brown General Instructions: Grading on this component of the Research Project will be based on the following along with any other pertinent materials on this project. Failure to follow the guidelines appearing here as well as any other guideline(s) on the Research Project will result in reduction(s) in grade according to all pertinent course materials (syllabus, other documents on this project, Announcements, in-class update(s), etc.). If any instruction(s) in any of our materials contradict or otherwise differ from what you have learned in an English class, you must follow the instructions in this class, not your English class. Grading on the Research Project is according to our materials in our class, not on any materials from any other class. INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH AND CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH (10 points total): Introduction Paragraph: Thesis statement from the Topic Proposal assignment (corrected, if needed, according to feedback you have received from the professor). The thesis statement must argue a particular legal, not non-legal {e.g., medical, sociological, economic, ete.) position/ argument. ldentification of two (2), three (3), or four (4) arguments that support the thesis statement (corrected, if needed, according to feedback you have received from the professor). The thesis statement must argue a particular legal, not non-legal (e.g., rmedical, sociological, economic, ete.) position/ argument. Each argument must assert a particular legal, not non-legal [e.g., medical, sociological, econamic, ete.) position/ point. NO background digressions or verbiage that goes beyond what is necessary to express your thesis statement and each argument (tips: eliminating prepositional phrases, rmodifying phrases or clauses, and passive verb tense are key technigues for removing excessive or verbose language). Excessively verbose or unnecessary language will reduce the grade. EXAMPLE: The city law is illegal. The case law is illegal. The statutory law is illegal. Administrative enforcement is also illegal. Conclusion Paragraph: Reiteration/copying of the thesis statement from 1) the Topic Proposal assignment (corrected, if needed, according to feedback you have received from the professor) and 2) your thesis paragraph. Reiteration/copying of the arguments from 1) the Topic Proposal assignment (corrected, if needed, according to feedback you have received from the professor) and 2) your thesis paragraph. NO background digressions or verbiage that goes beyond what is necessary to express your thesis statement and each argument (tips: eliminating prepositional phrases, modifying phrases or clauses, and passive verb tense are key techniques for removing excessive or verbose language). Excessively verbose or unnecessary language will reduce the grade. EXAMPLE: The city law is illegal. The case law is illegal. The statutory law is illegal, and administrative enforcement is also illegal. BODY (DISCUSSION OF EACH ARGUMENT) (20 points total): There must be a concise and clear topic sentence for each argument or main point. In other words, each topic sentence must verbatim reiterate your identification of each argument from the introduction paragraph. There must be legal - not medical, sociological, economic, etc. evidence to support each argument. Such evidence may be: case law/opinions and decisions of court cases; statutory law; or secondary sources (e.g., journal articles, legitimate websites, videos, books, or other electronically- or digitally available materials, etc.). There must be at least ten (10) in-text citations in APA format within the body.ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (20 points total): This is an annotated, list of your sources. You must have at least twelve (12) high- guality sources. For some topics for which there are many sources (eg., 2 Amendment, abortion, affirmative action, ete.], twelve (12} is the absolute minimum. For other topics that are more recent, such as the end of net neutrality, there are fewer available sources, so if you have a dozen (12) sources, you will probably not have any point deductions. Hint: \"[A]t least\" does not mean that minimal adherence to requirements guarantees the maximum grade; it means the minimum expectation for a potentially solid passing grade, e.g. \"C" (although there is never a guarantee of any particular grade). If you expect a grade that is above just a passing grade, you must go significantly beyond \"at least\" - or minimum expectations; \"minimum\" effort does not equal \"maximum\" grade. There are additional guidelines on sources and other aspects of this project, 3o please do be sure that you are thoroughly familiar with all pertinent documents and guidelines on this project: Sources need to be in APA citation style. Find examples of this citation style on the internet and apply them to your sources. In terms of quality, acceptable internet sources include those ending with .edu, gov., etc. Do not accept any and all sources you find on the internet as legitimate; use some common sense in selecting your sources, especially those on the internet, and use the information on the Research Paper Project: General Guidelines document as a general guide on what constitutes acceptable, quality sources. There should be a detailed paragraph (perhaps a2 half dozen sentences or so) addressing the following: Each paragraph must analyze each source for its credibility, discussing such issues as: why you believe the source is credible; what its strengths and weaknesses are; and how you plan to use it. Among factors you might consider in addressing these issues are: its authorship, including what academic or professional affiliation your author has; who the publisher is; where you found the source; and whether you believe that the source is accurate enocugh to be credible as a source (it is ok if it is not completely objective as long as it is otherwise credible for the foregoing reasons; but it is not ok if its bias is based on outright amission of facts or has a provenance that is largely regarded as being questionable (e.g. Hearst newspapers in the late 19" century and early 20" century; proponents of the Red Scare of the 1910s and 1920s; or McCarthy era rhetoric from the 1950s). Example: Bugs Bunny, Semething Fishy in Constitutional lurisprudence: Fishing Rights, Discrimination, and the Fourteenth Amendment, 112 Harvard Law Review 1246 (2001). | selected this article because the author is a professor at Columbia Law School and is an expert on fishing rights. Also, since the article appeared in the Harvard Law Review, ane of the highest quality sources on specific topics in the legal system, it is probably a well-researched and credible source with detailed, informative discussion on my topic. The annotations for each of your preliminary sources is not intended to be a major assignment. Rather, they are required to make sure that you critically evaluate the credibility of sources you find, especially on the internet. If your paper is based on simply repeating what an unknowledgeable next door neighbor has ranted about complex, hot button legal topics in a .org., .com, or blog, it is going to be very obvious to anyone who knows anything about the law, including your professor, who is grading this assignment. You need not be thoroughly familiar with your sources. Nor must you have read your source word-for-word, cover-to-cover. However, your sources must be credible and illustrate solid legal expertise