1 GENERAL STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR PAPERS  Papers should be 5-7 double-spaced pages, no longer than 8 pages.  Papers must be typed and have 1 inch left-side margins. Do not abuse font and page margin technology. Generally the font should be 10-12 point, similar to regular typeface.  Information must be clear, current, and adequate for its purpose. Writing must be grammatical, concise, and developed thematically. You are expected to properly reference your sources. Key criteria for evaluation include:  completeness - addresses all parts of assignment  concreteness - uses specific and accurate details, examples, facts, and statistics  correctness - proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, documentation  craft - effectively connects with the audience, smooth and concise style. References in text: Any quote, specific statistic, or distinctive point made by a particular author should always be referenced in the text. For these papers, keep the in-text references simple. Immediately after a sentence or table that has a specific fact, quote, or distinctive point, note the author’s name or an abbreviated version of the title in parentheses along with the page number where the information was found. Examples: (Clucas, p. 6) or (“2010 Electoral Results”, n.p.). Use n.p. if there is no page number. Bibliography: Attach a bibliography listing your research sources. Alphabetize entries and double space between entries, single space within them citation Examples:  Aspen, Allen. “Leaves are Beautiful”. Journal of Foliage. Vol. 12, No. 2 (Autumn 2010), pp. 10-15. Cite them in this format:  On-line versions of journals, newspapers, or other regular publications, treat it like a regular publication. If you use full text back issues of the Oregonian, from an index, simply refer to the article like you would if you had the hard copy;  Author’s last name, first name. “Article title”. Periodical name. Volume #, Edition#, (Date), page #s. Example:  Smith, Roger. “Salmon in Crisis.” Oregonian (January 12, 1998), p. A1. (Often you can only get the start page and sometimes no page at all. In that case, put “n.p.” in the text: (Smith, n.p.) 2 Paper: Community Political Profile Introduce me to your community, introduce me to the people, introduce me to the politics, and teach me about the political culture of your community. Specific Task: Introduction. 1) Research and define the meaning of two types of political cultures “conservative” and “progressive”. Specify the typical socio-demographics (age, race, income, rural or urban, type of employment industry, etc); political values (examples: specific positions a variety of issues such as taxes, social issues, education, etc.); and political party affiliation of each definition. 2) Make observations about the county/city in which you live (or are from) is it. For example is it ...

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GENERAL STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR PAPERS
-7 double-spaced pages, no longer than 8
pages.
-side margins. Do
not abuse font and page margin
technology. Generally the font should be 10-12 point, similar
to regular typeface.
purpose. Writing must be grammatical,
concise, and developed thematically. You are expected to
properly reference your sources.
Key criteria for evaluation include:
- addresses all parts of assignment
- uses specific and accurate details, examples,
facts, and statistics
- proper grammar, punctuation, spelling,
documentation
- effectively connects with the audience, smooth and
concise style.

2. References in text:
Any quote, specific statistic, or distinctive point made by a
particular author should always be
referenced in the text. For these papers, keep the in-text
references simple. Immediately after a
sentence or table that has a specific fact, quote, or distinctive
point, note the author’s name or an
abbreviated version of the title in parentheses along with the
page number where the information was
found.
Examples: (Clucas, p. 6) or (“2010 Electoral Results”, n.p.).
Use n.p. if there is no page number.
Bibliography: Attach a bibliography listing your research
sources.
Alphabetize entries and double space between entries, single
space within them citation
Examples:
Vol. 12, No. 2 (Autumn 2010),
pp. 10-15.
Cite them in this format:
-line versions of journals, newspapers, or other regular
publications, treat it like a regular

3. publication. If you use full text back issues of the Oregonian,
from an index, simply refer to
the article like you would if you had the hard copy;
name. Volume #, Edition#, (Date),
page #s.
Example:
1998), p. A1. (Often you can only
get the start page and sometimes no page at all. In that case,
put “n.p.” in the text: (Smith, n.p.)
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Paper: Community Political Profile
Introduce me to your community, introduce me to the people,
introduce me to the politics, and teach
me about the political culture of your community.

4. Specific Task:
Introduction.
1) Research and define the meaning of two types of political
cultures “conservative” and
“progressive”. Specify the typical socio-demographics (age,
race, income, rural or urban,
type of employment industry, etc); political values (examples:
specific positions a variety of
issues such as taxes, social issues, education, etc.); and political
party affiliation of each
definition.
2) Make observations about the county/city in which you live
(or are from) is it. For example
is it: rural vs. urban; agriculture vs. business; family vs. single;
large school districts vs.
small; college town; older people vs. younger; wealth; all
republican candidates lawn signs
vs democratic; no GMO vs yes on GMO) and identify the
political culture of your
community according to the ideological labels identified in
class: “progressive”,
“conservative”, or “moderate” (characteristics of both cultures).
Then identify your

5. community.
Determine what your community is, whether your initial
observations are accurate or not.
1. Analyze the socio-demographics characteristics of your
county.
1) Identify three distinct statistical characteristics of your
county and compare them to your
observations;
2) Explain how the actual socio-demographics contribution
support or do not support your
hypothesis about your community’s political characteristic.
For examples you could look at its major areas of industry; its
education levels; and/or demographic
characteristics, such as age, race, or income or
economy/industry.
What does older population likely to vote for or against;
younger population; families with school age
children; large business sector; large public employee sector;
urban community with college.
In this section you will use information from:

6. ed States Census Bureau: The United States Census
Bureau website will provide a
variety of information and data about each county in Oregon.
The following address
provides access to a diversity of state on states and counties so
you can compare your
county with the state figures:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/.
http://bluebook.state.or.us/local/counties/counties.htm
some articles that
specifically look at some problems or strengths of your county
or your town.
website:
http://www.oregonlive.com/ and use the search function to
access archived articles;
“journal titles”
for local newspaper
articles; and
county library. To access a
database via a county library website, you will need a library
card for that county.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/
http://bluebook.state.or.us/local/counties/counties.htm
http://www.oregonlive.com/

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2. Identify and summarize the following specific political
statistics of your county and
compare them with state-wide numbers:
1) Party registration (Democrat; Republican; non-affiliated;
Independent) in your county.
2) Percentage voting for winning Governor John Kitzhaber in
the 2010 election; Compare to
the voting percentage for Governor Kitzhaber the 2014 election;
Is it higher, lower, or about
the same?
identification? Why?
-
demographics
support or not support
your hypothesis. Is it what you expected? Why or why not?
3) How many people in your county voted in 2012 and in 2014?
Which election had more
people returning their ballots? Why?
you may or may not have
voted; think about the socio-economic factors of voting and

8. based on your research
on the socio-economic factors in your county, does your county
fit into one the
more likely voters’ category or least likely category?
3. Analyze how your county voted on two ballot measures from
2006-2012 and one from
2014. Select three ballot measures, explain each issue and what
type of voter is likely to
support it (i.e. conservative, progressive). Compare the number
of “yes” and “no” votes in your
county, did it pass in your county? Did your county vote
differently or the same as the state
overall?
a. What does the outcome say about your county?
b. Did your county turnout support or not support your political
culture hypothesis? Why
or why not?
c. Where you surprised by the support or rejection of a
measures? Why?
In this section you will use information from:
guides

9. (http://oregonvotes.org/pages/publications/index.html), and then
results by county to determine
how your county voted
(http://oregonvotes.org/pages/history/archive/index.html)
4. Identify the state representative and state senator who
represent you.
1) Identify your STATE representative and STATE senator
(http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/)
a. Identify their party; legislative history; professional
background;
b. Do the issues they support and party affiliation reflect the
definition that you identified
for your political culture of your county?
5. Conclusion
Did your original hypothesis about the political culture of your
county prove to be accurate or
inaccurate? Why? What does the socio-economic data, political
statistics; and state elected
official say about your community?
http://oregonvotes.org/pages/publications/index.html
Name: Terry J Freeman

10. Professor: Paul Boyer
Course: ENC-101
Date: 20160214
Polishing Ideas
When adapting a specialized type or technique of writing for the
general audience, I would like to put my process into five stages
or steps. Firstly, I must find out who will be my intended
audience. Secondly, I would document all the vocabularies that
I will utilize. Thirdly, I will find materials where I put down my
rough draft. Additionally, in the fourth step, I will have the
paper reviewed by the person who is related to the intended
audience. In my final step, I will develop a write for my final
presentation.
As I have given the summary of the steps I will use, in the first
step, the task will be determining the audience I will be writing
for. In this step will help me know how much process need to be
converted. In addition, in this step will help me know the order
of writing the information (Gong & Dragga, 1995). Moreover,
in this process, I need to ask myself whether the reader will be
in a position to comprehend the information and its order. Also,
in this step, I will take notes which will assist me when I will
be writing my final paper to be used in presentation.
Secondly, I will document the vocabulary that I will use to
ensure that there is common language
that will help each and every reader understand me. In addition,
I will go through the process and
identify the abbreviations and terms that I will use. Moreover, I
will put down the key words that
I will need to use, and the words that I will be required to
change out and also utilize
input i.e. words that I will be given by other workers that will
help to make the vocabularies that I will be using easy to
understand.
Thirdly, I will commence to write my rough draft. This step will
be made easier to go through since I will use notes that I have
already compiled in the step one and two of the whole process.

11. The sentence that I need to use will be short and straight to the
point (Gong & Dragga, 1995). More so, the paragraphs that I
will use will be having minimum of 5 to 7 sentences. In this
stage, I will utilize the acronym, “K.I.S.S” which will remind
me of how to “Keep it Stupid Simple”.
Fourthly, I will be involved in completing writing the rough
draft and handing it over to my colleagues so that it can
reviewed (Gong & Dragga, 1995). In this step, will help me to
assess the accuracy of my rough draft which will be helpful
when writing the final copy.
In the fifth step, I will be involved in writing the final copy for
the presentation. In this stage it is supposed to be the easiest
section when writing my final copy. It is simplest step since
when writing final copy, I will be using the necessary changes
requested. Then after making those changes the paper will be
ready to be presented to the intended audience.
The process of adapting a specialized or technical subject is not
that difficult. That is, five-stepped process seems to make this
process a little bit easier for me when writing and presenting the
final copy. In addition, utilizing these five stepped process will
not only help but also the reader because of its simplicity.
References
Gong, Gwendolyn and Dragga, Sam. A Writer’s Repertoire.
(New York: Longman, 1995)
Name: Terry J Freeman
Professor: Paul Boyer
Course: ENC-101
Date: 20160124
Writing Description
If your colleague or your classmate is looking for a good
holiday place to relax, then you might want to pack your bags

12. and get on a journey to my hometown of Logan, West Virginia.
It is located at the center of the Appalachian Mountains
Southern of West Virginia; it is a very great place for those who
enjoy historical parks, adventures, and great food.
The most important reason that tourists visit Logan in West
Virginia is the outdoor adventure. Logan offers an excellent
access to the famous Hatfield-McCoy trail. There is the ATV
Bear Wallow Trail System, which is approximately 67 miles
(109 kilometers) of the entire trail and has a direct access from
Logan. This trail system offers a smooth riding for beginners
and extreme trails for the experienced ones. One who visits
Hatfield-McCoy trail will always guarantee to come back to the
place for another trip for all outdoor enthusiasts.
There is also Chief Logan State Park, which is located in Logan
in West Virginia. It was named after Chief Logan who was an
Iroquois Native American. This park offers a museum, which
features history exhibits and arts. The historical park offers an
outdoor swimming pool, Amphitheater for plays and musicals,
camping sites and 18 miles (29 kilometers) of hiking trails
throughout the summer. If you cannot visit chief Lagos State
Park during the summer, then you can visit it during holidays.
The park is always filled up with a series of Christmas lights
that stretch on approximately two miles long between the
months of November and December. If history is your favorite,
then visiting Chief Logan State Park is a must when you visit
Logan, West Virginia. Furthermore, if it is excellent food that
you like then you find it there.

13. References
Gong, Gwendolyn and Dragga, Sam. A Writer’s Repertoire.
(New York: Longman, 1995)
http://www.wvstateparks.com/Brochures/ChiefLoganStateParkB
rochure.pdf
http://www.trailsheaven.com/
Name: Terry J Freeman
Professor: Paul Boyer
Course: ENC-101
Date: 20160117
Writing an Explanatory Paper
One Saturday morning on my way to church I happened to
notice quite a few numbers of young and old people with the
card board signs in their hands as I was driving through my
community. They were standing on their sidewalks waving their
signs right and left. As the traffic came to a stop at a traffic
light some of them rushed to my vehicle and asked me for
donations. As I was dropping some few dollars into one of their
cups I happened to notice a sign reading “Support the relief of
Haiti”. As I progressed on my journey this question came to my
mind, what motivates individuals to volunteer or perform
community services?
A lot of people today curry out various community services
because of the many reasons such as; bringing people together,
promoting personal growth and self-esteem, it saves resources,
psychological benefits since you feel good about yourself and
decreases stress and depression, and also it enhances saving of

14. resources. However, most religious responsibilities and service
hour’s requirement for programs are the top ten reasons that
motivate individuals to perform community services. All over
the world many people for example Christians are always seen
performing numerous types of volunteer work. Christians
frequently encourages believers to participate in community
services.
In American way of life, money is one of the fundamental
methods we denominate value. However, a life of Christian
service will comprise the offering of a more valuable asset than
money, and that is time. This giving away of time is regularly
noted as being Christ like. Most of the people are usually
motivated to volunteer because of sharing of the love they have
and also the need to support. The gospel emphasizes the
significance of providing services to others. In the book of
(Luke 10:27), Jesus Christ himself indicated that in loving God
you should love your neighbor as you love yourself when he
was asked on how to inherit eternal life. The parable of “The
Good Samaritan “is a good illustration of the person who loves
his neighbor is the one who provides services to him when he is
in need. (Luke 10:25-37). According to the bible everyone in
supposed to provide services to those who are in need.
References
Gong, Gwendolyn and Dragga, Sam. A Writer’s Repertoire.
(New York: Longman, 1995)

15. King James Version. The Holy Bible