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Assignment:
What is the most pressing threat to Canadian democracy today?
Research Essay
This assignment is a classic research essay. Research essays are compositions that attempt to prove a thesis. Essays in political science are argumentative, meaning your aim is to convince your reader of your thesis rather than simply informing them of the evidence you have gathered.
The previous assignments in this course have all helped you to build the necessary skills and intellectual background to complete this assignment. When you start writing your essay, remember that the act of writing out one's ideas subjects those ideas to especially rigorous scrutiny. Properly done, the research essay is an important tool to both develop and convey thoughtful political analysis.
The topic for your essay is: What is the most pressing threat to Canadian democracy today?
Sources: You can draw on material from the syllabus for this paper, but you must make substantive use of a minimum of five peer-reviewed sources from outside the course. Substantive use means ensuring that the arguments, themes, or conclusions of the piece are used to meaningfully contribute to your argument. It does not mean using sources for historical background, statistics, or other data points (although you certainly can use sources for this purpose, you must just do so in addition to utilizing five sources substantively).