Is our Election Process Fair?
My interest in this topic streams from our ever-failing government's lack of consideration of the choices we as a people make.
There are several choices to make about how to write this research paper, but the stance is clearly for or against. I think I have made my choice to possibly leave mine elusive to the reader until the final sentance.
***What do you think? Do you think Gale told us it was ok to voice our opinon and use "I" throughout our essay because we have the option to or because she wants us to?
My working knowledge of the Elcetoral College is somewhat up to date, but here are a few tools I like to use:
I really love the search engine, google, I know it's not the most reliable seach tool, but if you read over the URLs on each result in search of .org or .edu it usually turns up some credible leads.
I also tried the Gale Virtual Library as Gale suggested. It was very infomative and gave me some great leads on published books and encycolpedia entries, concerning the Electoral College.
I also tried Google Scholar, it wasn't as helpful as the two pevious but, it did turn up some reliable sources.
An interesting fact I found was that California has landed the "Californian Fair Elections Act on their ballot for June 2010!
If any of you have any advice on this topic it would be greatly appreciated, any thoughts, ideas or suggestions.
Do you think that I will be able to come up with enough information to write 10-12 pages?
Do you have any ideas as to what I should use as paragraph topics, or any points of interest or argumentative ideas? Please Comment.
Thanks, Jen
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Jen,
If the fairness of the election process is something you are passionate about or very interested in, I think it would be a good topic.
I think Gail gave us the option to use "I" in our papers in order to give us more flexibility, and the ability to make our papers something we can relate to and are proud of. If you don't feel like using "I", I am sure that is a personal choice you can make.
Hm, I forgot to look at Google Scholar. I used Yahoo, Bing, Google, Wikipedia, PubMed, CNN.com, among others. I actually did not find anything on Gale Virtual Library, or the vlib.org site the book had us visit. I still need to look on Google Books too.
I think that you should be able to come up with enough information for a 10-12 page paper, but if for some reason you don't. You could expend your topic a bit to cover how the election process (connecting it into the fairness or unfairness) is affecting our population. Over long, or short periods of time.
You could also go over some of the history of the election process (which actually I think would be good to add anyway).
I personally have not researched this subject much beyond high school government, so I really don't have much more to add.
-Courtney
I think if your passionate about it and interested go for it. I don't care for politics whatsoever, so don't have much to share in ways of where to look, what to say. I don't vote, nor do I watch any elections stuff. Good luck with the research process though!!
Jen
I think this is a topic I would like to read about. Like you I find myself in the middle about so much and have very much wanted to know more about the processes in place, and whether they are fair.
I think Gail offered using "I" so that we could feel free to write about how we feel. Not just be limited to making this a factual, scientifically proven research paper. From my understanding she wants to hear our opinion and passion so using "I” might give the paper that feeling.
As far as research goes have you tried using EBSCO or PROQUEST? I really recommend searching through the library. I didn’t find anything using the Gale search either. If you have time I think going to the library would help (I couldn’t do that though so I understand if you can’t). I would think you would be able to find a lot of information on the process, and a lot of information from groups that don’t think the process is fair. As a reader I would be interested in seeing how many people don’t vote because of they don’t think it’s fair. Maybe you could interview people you know, or do a facebook pole as so many of us do for our children’s school projects? Just an informal read on whom and why when it comes to voting and your peers. I know I don’t vote sometimes because I get overwhelmed with information and wonder how/ if the process works. Just by how much I am writing and my interest, I can say to you that I think this is a great topic. It brings up issues that we don’t hear about often.
I would look for groups that may be formed that don’t agree with the process, I would look for groups that encourage voting and believe in the system. I also would make sure to put some basic educational information in this for the reader. Help the reader learn the process and who it works before they can read about how it may not be fair.
I am intrigued and I can’t wait to read more.
Best of luck,
Ginny
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