double-spaced throughout, use only 12 Point Times New Roman Font, and include a Cover Page with your name, a title for your paper, and the section number of our class. The Cover Page and Reference List do not count towards your final page count.
Your Nation-State paper must use 3-4 scholarly peer-reviewed sources to back up its reasoning. Using less than 3 sources will certainly lower your score but of course you may exceed 4 sources. Aim to acquire mainly scholarly peer-reviewed sources. Search for scholarly sources in the electronic library database system available through our home page on www.wlac.edu.
Your Nation-State paper should not be merely descriptive but also analytical, and include a clearly stated thesis. Please make sure to underline your thesis in the introductory paragraph of your paper so that I can clearly see that you recognize precisely what argument you are attempting to defend.
In this paper you will only be using APA formatting. APA formatting is customary for social science papers. You can find information on APA formatting at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. On this site is information to help you formulate proper APA “in-text and Reference List mechanics. Make sure that you are citing information accurately and ethically.
Keep in mind that what you are essentially writing is a research paper, not an “opinion editorial.” What I mean by this is that your paper’s analysis (its reasoning, if you will) can only be driven by the sources that you bring to bear to defend it. So do your best to find good sources!