Your term paper is due April 20th, by email to karen.bakker@ubc.ca.

You are invited to submit an optional one page outline by March 27th, for feedback. This should be a bullet point outline of the structure of your paper. Your outline will be returned by April 3rd.

Mark: 30% of final mark

Topic: Your choice of either of the two topics you did not cover in your debate and panel presentation.

Length: Approximately 15 pages double-spaced (approximately 3000 to 4000 words)

Guidelines:

• Your paper should make a clear argument about the relevant resolution debated in class (this is an essay, not a report). The paper should assess and weigh the evidence on both sides of the resolution, then offer an informed opinion as to why you are in favour (or not in favour) of the resolution.
• In the panel presentation, you played the role of a policy advisor. In the debate, you played the role of a politician engaged in public debate. In the paper, you will play the role of a judge: a neutral assessor of the evidence on both sides of the argument, who renders a judgment on the issue at hand.
• Make sure to focus your essay on the resolution, and present evidence on both sides (for and against the resolution).
• Your bibliography should include at least 15 sources, primarily from academic peer-refereed journals, or published reports from reputable sources (e.g. government documents, think-tank reports)

Style:

• Use footnotes (not endnotes)
• Literature/citations need not be confined to Geography; feel free to read widely
• Citation style is your choice (but please be consistent)