PLSI 100 Essay Assignment II My Political Socialization Write an essay on the following: What were the most important agents of political socialization in your life? What political influences, experiences, or events in your life have shaped your political views and ideology? [Read Shively, pp. 188-193 before writing your essay.] Deadline for submission: Sunday, October 30, 2016 (Please submit your essay as a Word file to Turnitin through the link given in this box on iLearn. If you are using another word-processing program, please change your file into a Word file. Instructions on how to do this are given in the box for the first essay on “My Political Ideology” on iLearn.) Credit: You will receive 5% of your overall grade for this assignment. *** Some guide lines to follow when doing your essays: This is a formal writing assignment. You will be graded for both the content as well as composition of your answer. The main text for each essay should be about 3 typed pages (in double space, 12 point font size, approximately 300 words per page, 1 inch margin all around). Your essay should not be more than half a page longer or shorter than the prescribed length. Use insights gained from your readings, lectures and discussions in class to your analysis. You may use or refer to other materials and sources but your essay must incorporate and/or show awareness of ideas discussed in the class or its materials. You may clarify or illustrate your discussion regarding your ideological beliefs by giving examples of political positions, issues, or policies you favor. Credit will be given for how clearly and logically you discuss your topic. To be most effective in communicating what you are saying, express yourself carefully and in a direct and concise manner. Each essay should have: * A cover page: with the title of your essay, your name, course number, title of the course, semester, year, and your student I.D. number. 1. Introduction: what are your central arguments, and how are you going to proceed to analyze your topic (i.e. what is the logic underlying the layout of your paper). 2. Body of the paper: in which you describe, discuss and analyze/interpret the topic in a balanced manner. It should be logically developed and argued. You do not need to create sub-sections with sub-titles for this short essay. 3. Conclusion: Specify what generalizations or overall insights your essay provides. Make sure these relate back to questions/issues raised in the introduction. If appropriate, you can also provide tentative or speculative projections of what you think could happen in the future. 4. Notes: Provide the references or citations to writings, opinions or facts from other sources included in your paper. These can be arranged in footnotes on each page or listed together under the heading "Notes" at the end of the paper. Be sure these are laid out in a standard a.

1. PLSI 100
Essay Assignment II
My Political Socialization
Write an essay on the following:
What were the most important agents of political socialization
in your life? What political
influences, experiences, or events in your life have shaped your
political views and
ideology?
[Read Shively, pp. 188-193 before writing your essay.]
Deadline for submission: Sunday, October 30, 2016
(Please submit your essay as a Word file to Turnitin through
the link given in this box on
iLearn. If you are using another word-processing program,
please change your file into a
Word file. Instructions on how to do this are given in the box
for the first essay on “My
Political Ideology” on iLearn.)
Credit: You will receive 5% of your overall grade for this
assignment.

2. ***
Some guide lines to follow when doing your essays:
This is a formal writing assignment. You will be graded for
both the content as well as
composition of your answer.
The main text for each essay should be about 3 typed pages (in
double space, 12 point
font size, approximately 300 words per page, 1 inch margin all
around). Your essay
should not be more than half a page longer or shorter than the
prescribed length.
Use insights gained from your readings, lectures and
discussions in class to your analysis.
You may use or refer to other materials and sources but your
essay must incorporate
and/or show awareness of ideas discussed in the class or its
materials.
You may clarify or illustrate your discussion regarding your
ideological beliefs by giving
examples of political positions, issues, or policies you favor.
Credit will be given for how clearly and logically you discuss
your topic. To be most
effective in communicating what you are saying, express
yourself carefully and in a
direct and concise manner.
Each essay should have:

3. * A cover page: with the title of your essay, your name, course
number, title of the
course, semester, year, and your student I.D. number.
1. Introduction: what are your central arguments, and how are
you going to proceed to
analyze your topic (i.e. what is the logic underlying the layout
of your paper).
2. Body of the paper: in which you describe, discuss and
analyze/interpret the topic in a
balanced manner. It should be logically developed and argued.
You do not need to create
sub-sections with sub-titles for this short essay.
3. Conclusion: Specify what generalizations or overall insights
your essay provides.
Make sure these relate back to questions/issues raised in the
introduction. If appropriate,
you can also provide tentative or speculative projections of
what you think could happen
in the future.
4. Notes: Provide the references or citations to writings,
opinions or facts from other
sources included in your paper. These can be arranged in
footnotes on each page or listed
together under the heading "Notes" at the end of the paper. Be
sure these are laid out in a
standard accepted format. Whichever style you choose, please
follow it consistently. Two
different citation styles are given below in this assignment
handout.
Be sure that the essay is in your own words and reflects your

4. own views, writing, and
conclusions. Unless it is "common knowledge", provide
references for specific evidence
or ideas acquired from another source: article, book, author,
person, etc. Do not
plagiarize--it is a crime to "steal" someone else's ideas or words
and present them as your
own. You will be penalized heavily for that in this assignment,
if not failed altogether for
the class.
Pay attention to grammar, punctuation, spelling, and similar
elements of good writing. If
you are uncertain about a particular spelling, use of commas,
apostrophes, possessives
and contractions, etc. check it out.
You may want to refer to a writing manual for information on
writing essays, matters of
style and punctuation, and what constitutes plagiarism. You are
advised to consult G.M.
Scott and S.M. Garrison, The Political Science Student Writer's
Manual (New Jersey:
Pearson Education, 2012, or latest edition); or Diana Hacker
and Nancy Sommers, A
Pocket Style Manual (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012, or
latest edition) (The two
should be available for purchase in the student store or online).
There is additional material and links in the box on iLearn that
will help you as you write
your essay. The UC Berkeley Library handout on "Turabian and
Chicago Style Citations"
will be particularly helpful to you in trying to figure out the
right way to cite material in
your essay.

5. All essays should be neatly laid out in the prescribed format.
You can modify or extend
the title in some appropriate, interesting or indicative way.
Remember to number the pages of your essay.
Leave yourself enough time to revise and proof-read your essay
carefully to check for
any typos or other errors before handing it in.
Enjoy doing this assignment! Most of you do all this very
nicely.
Examples of the correct way to cite sources
Either of the styles given below will be acceptable. Whichever
style you choose, apply it
consistently. Please note the relevant information that is
provided and the manner in
which the citation is punctuated for each style. For further
information, please consult
the following document on the iLearn website “Turabian and
Chicago Styles
Citations.”
Style 1
An in-text citation style would look like this:
...a nation has also been conceived of as necessarily consisting

6. of several criteria: a stable
community of people who have a common language, territory,
economic life, and
psychological make-up (Taras and Ganguly 1998, 18-21).
or:
...a nation has also been conceived of as necessarily consisting
of several criteria: a stable
community of people who have a common language, territory,
economic life, and
psychological make-up (Stalin cited in Hutchinson and Smith
1994, 18-21).
or:
According to Professor Shastri, it is important to distinguish
between civic nationalism
and ethno-nationalism (Lecture, 26 April 2016).
Provide the full reference for the source cited in a section titled
REFERENCES at the end
of your essay. In this case the full references will be laid out
alphabetically thus:
Connor, Walker. 1984. "Eco- or Ethno-Nationalism?" Ethnic
and Racial Studies 7 (3):
342-59.
Shastri, Amita. 2016. Lecture on "Types of Nationalism," PLSI
416: Ethnicity and
Nationalism, SFSU, 15 March.
Stalin, Joseph, “What is a Nation?” In John Hutchinson and
A.D. Smith, eds,
Nationalism. New York: Oxford Readers, 18-21.
Taras, Ray, and Rajat Ganguly. 1998. Understanding Ethnic
Conflict: The International
Dimension (New York: Longman).

7. Style 2
A style with Footnotes would be laid out with the text and
footnotes looking like this,
with the relevant footnotes placed at the bottom of that page:
….As usually understood, a nation is a stable community of
people who have a common
language.1 Others have argued that a nation has to also be
conceived of as necessarily
consisting of other criteria that include a common territory,
economic life, and
psychological make-up of the people concerned.2 Scholars, such
as Connor, agree with
this.3….However, according to Professor Shastri, it is important
to distinguish between
civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism.4
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1. Ray Taras and Rajat Ganguly, Understanding Ethnic Conflict:
The International
Dimension (New York: Longman, 1998), 18-21.
2. Joseph Stalin, in John Hutchinson and A.D. Smith, eds,
Nationalism (New York:
Oxford Readers, 1994), 18-21.
3. Walker Connor, "Eco- or Ethno-Nationalism?" Ethnic and
Racial Studies, vol.7 no.3,
1984, 343.
4. Professor Shastri, lecture on "Types of nationalism," SFSU,
15 March 2014.

8. If a source is referred to again, the footnote will give a
shortened form of the information,
thus:
5. Taras and Ganguly, Understanding Ethnic Conflict, 32-54.
In case a source is referred to again, immediately after it was in
the previous footnote,
then:
6. Ibid, 33-40.
In this style, there would be no need for a separate reference
list.
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