Instructions for Prepared Paper/Essay Formatting Instructions:  1 inch margin a

Instructions for Prepared Paper/Essay
Formatting Instructions:
 1 inch margin all around
 Double spaced
 Beginning of each paragraph indented
 “Save as” Lastname_Essay.rtf
 Assignment should be 3 to 5 pages in length
 Assignment will be uploaded to the class CANVAS page by the deadline
 Do not send the assignment to the instructor’s email address
 Use third person
 Use past tense
 PROOFREAD assignment carefully before submission
 Students will be allowed to submit assignment twice if necessary, however, once
the assignment is graded, no further re-submission is allowed.
 Plagiarism or collusion will result in a grade of “0” for the assignment, and the
submission of a report to the Dean of Liberal Arts for possible further sanction.
 Citations for the paper will be in the form of footnotes only
Rubric
 Grading is on a 10 point scale:
A= 100-90
B=89-80
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2
C=79-70
D=69-60
F=59-0
 Loss of points:
Missing information: 1 point per incident
Wrong information: 1 point per incident
Questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why significant?
Grading for errors will be in red
Writing comments on the paper, not necessarily for deductions, blue.
Questions for United States I Fall 2021
Choose one (1) of the following question from which to write an essay.
1. The different interpretations of the U.S. Constitution created the first American political
parties. What were these parties’ views, who were their leaders, and which interpretation became
the one more successfully aligned with the beginnings of the United States?
-OR-
2. What does the term “Judicial Nationalism” mean in the context of United States Supreme
Court decisions in the following cases: Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and
Dartmouth v. Woodward