PAPER

 CRITERIA FOR POSITION PAPER 

1. Choose a topic for your Position Paper from the list that was presented in class. 

2. Papers must be a MINIMUM of six pages long (4 full pages of text, one page for references and one cover page). No headings should be repeated on the four pages of text - they belong on the cover page. Write a minimum of four pages of text on your topic – short papers will not earn credit. 

3. Include a minimum of four scholarly references (social science journals, law books; and/or websites that are sponsored by academics and/or professionals) and include a bibliography at the end of the paper using ASA formatting. One of those references can be from ONE of our texts; the other references must come from separate academic journal articles NOT news articles or random websites. 

4. Do not include Wikipedia or other encyclopedia/dictionary usages among the four references. 

5. Use ASA writing style only; an ASA formatting guide can be found in bb learn under course content instructions or online. 

6. Double-Space, use 12 point normal font (similar to New Times Roman) and margins no greater than 1.25” on all sides. DO NOT MANIPULATE FONTS AND/OR FORMATTING TO SATISFY THE LENGTH CRITERIA (SHORT PAPERS WILL NOT EARN CREDIT). 

The Topic is about:    Family Violence