Pick one:
- Pick any current member of the House or Senate. Tell how this member has explained her or his position on one of the following: DOGE, the Israel-Hamas War, the Ukraine War, abortion, or immigration. With reference to Davidson, ch. 5, analyze how this explanation reflects both the member's constituency and her or his place on Capitol Hill.
- Pick chapter 3, 4, or 5 of the Davidson book. Write a brief postscript to update the analysis. That is, what events of the past year should materially change the authors' analysis when they write the next edition?
Essays should reflect an understanding of class readings and discussions. Many resources, including CQ Magazine are at Library/Databases/CQ Library. Consult other sources as well. See, among others:
- Congress.gov
- Vital Statistics on Congress
- Congressional Research Service
- Pew Research Center data on Congress
- House
- Senate
- Biog Directory of US Congress 1774- present
- C-SPAN
- Census Reporter [to find a profile of a House district, enter "Congressional District" and then the number. For instance: Congressional District 28 CA.
Read Strunk & White and my stylesheet (with links to model papers).
The specifications:
- Essays should be typed (12-point), double-spaced, and no more than three pages long. I will not read past the third page.
- Please submit all papers in this course as Word documents, not Google docs or pdfs.
- Cite your sources. Please use endnotes in the format of Chicago Manual of Style. Endnotes do not count against the page limit. Please do not use footnotes, which take up too much page space.
- Misrepresenting AI-generated content as your own work is plagiarism and will result in severe consequences
- Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you. Return essays to the Sakai dropbox for this class by 11:59 PM, Friday, February 7. (If you do not use Sakai, simply email me the paper as an attached file.) I reserve the right to dock papers one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.
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