- 20 Mar, 2021
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International Climate Change Regime
International Relations
Paper Suggestions
The Paper
The paper is a 5 page write-up of your discussion topic with a quick review of the main pints, questions asked, and responses.
A good paper answers the following three questions:
- Topic
- Problem inherent in the topic (rationale) for international relations
- Significance
Therefore, when the reader is finished with your paper, s(he) should be able to answer the three questions
- This is a paper about . . . . .
- The author wanted to ask [what?] about it?
- In order to tell me/explain to me . . . . . . .
Since it is only 3-5 pages, the reader should have a sense of where the paper is headed by the end of the first–and no later than the second–paragraph. Do not bury your best material 3/4 of the way through!!!
Grading
- If the paper has a clear topic, appropriate to the course and poses a compelling question and reason for writing, I will ask myself if the rest of the paper provides scholarly evidence for the argument (i.e. reputable sources) and it will be an A.
- If the paper provides good information on the topic, it will be a B.
- If the paper provides little research and no thesis, but it competently written, it will be a C.
- Anything else will be a D or an F.