1. Discuss the concept of executive privilegethe rationale for its existence, circumstances in which it applies, and court opinions regarding its legitimacy and the extent to which it applies to the President and to other executive-branch officials. TERM PAPER Permissible topics are listed below. The term paper will be a minimum of 3 pages, double-spaced, plus a references cited page. A minimum of 5 sources must be used and cited; of these, 3 must be academic (peer-reviewed) sources. APA format is required. In MS Word! You must submit your paper for review in Smarthinking, receive and incorporate comments into a revised version, and submit both your final paper revision and your Smarthinking comments for this assignment. (ToolsSmarthinkingSubmit My WritingEssay Center). Tips & Suggestions: Start your paper early enough so that you can allow a week for the Smarthinking review and any additional research/revision that will be required for a final paper revision. Many students lose points on their paper because they do not use academic sources. In doing your library search, be sure to check the Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals button. You can also use the library website chat function to ask a librarian if your source is an academic one. As a last resort, you can email the professor with the full citation and ask whether it is an academic source. As a hint, you can be pretty sure that an article on a website with a .com or .org URL will NOT be an academic sourceit will be the work of an interest group or a policy group, most likely. Newspapers are not academic sources! A link to the San Jac library is in the Support Resources tab on our course page, or under Student Services on the San Jac main page. Please be mindful of San Jacs plagiarism policies. Be sure to cite your sources in the body of the paper wherever you use them. Do not use lengthy material from other sources, even if you cite thema paper that consists primarily of work from other sources is not your paper. For further info on academic honesty refer to our course syllabus (in the Syllabus/Calendar tab) and the San Jac Student Handbook (available from San Jac main page, under Student Services). The grade will be determined by the quality of analysis and exploration of the topic covered (see the grading rubric).
