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POLICY PAPER GUIDANCE ***MUST CITE WORK WITH PAGE NUMBER****

You have a lot of guidance already! There is a second Announcement following this one. Just to remind you all of the core goals:

1. Identify the leading NGO that deals with your problem area (e.g., human rights) and the corresponding UN agency.  Search for materials relating to their findings.  This CAN be from the open web.  

2. Starting with the paywalled database JSTOR, begin searching for scholarly articles on your subject. Branch out from there as needed. CITE!!! There was an issue with plagiarism on the PDE Film Response. Please be careful. Protect yourself by offering citations for anything that is not your original idea.

You need a minimum of two (2) policy reports from an NGO and two (2) peer-reviewed academic papers.

As a reminder, I posted detailed overviews of where to search and how in previous Announcements.  Please review the Policy Paper-focused Announcements.  

Those seeking to utilize the UN document delivery service can find the URL here:

http://www.un.org/en/databases/index.html

Additional Guidance and Rubric - Policy Paper

Posted on: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:20:35 AM EST

The main guidance has been offered already in the form of two Announcements.  Please scroll down through the Announcements until you find them...

The additional guidance today relates to sources and structure.  

As I have informed you all, either privately of via feedback, this is a research-based assignment.  Therefore, you need to have evidence in the form of sources.  You cannot use the open web for your scholarly sources. They MUST come from one of the paywalled databases available in the list I provided (or via the Logue Library A-Z Databases page).  

The scholarly source requirement is two peer-reviewed journal articles.  These apply for the whole paper.  So, you can use the same sources for each of your three policies (but vary what information you include from those sources - i.e., do not just keep citing the same data for each policy solution).

You also must have some NGO (non-governmental organization) report elements.  This means something specific, from an NGO in the field that your policy focuses on.  

So, there are also two NGO report sources required as well.  

FOUR SOURCES TOTAL - 2 from a peer-reviewed journal (like the ones we have read all term) and 2 from an NGO.  The former MUST be from a paywalled academic database.  The latter CAN be from the open web so long as it is directly from the NGO itself (not second-hand cited in, say, a newspaper article).  

 

The paper is humanitarian and global in its focus.  So, the solutions cannot be military intervention or something akin to a diplomatic summit.  Your core policy must be addressed in a realistic way.  You do not have unlimited funding!  

To reiterate: you come up with a CORE GLOBAL ISSUE/PROBLEM and then devise THREE ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS.  Back it up with sources.  That's it!