The document provides expectations and guidelines for writing a research paper on the negative outcomes of socialist government in Venezuela. It instructs students to develop a hypothesis, conduct research to validate or invalidate the hypothesis using primary and secondary sources, and analyze their findings. The given hypothesis is that the socialist government in Venezuela has caused a crisis since 1999 through poor political choices and a drop in oil prices, negatively impacting the country by splitting the government, causing high inflation, and straining relations with the United States.