Assignment: Commercial Gambling

Assignment: Commercial Gambling

– Identify either a law passed within five years in the United States (e.g., stiffer penalties for drinking under age) or a law that is present in some states (or countries) but not others (e.g., the allowance of commercial gambling). – Write a list of potential outcomes associated with this law (e.g., decline in traffic fatalities associated with stiffer penalties for drinking under age or higher crime rate in states that allow gambling). – Use the library, newspaper articles, and the Internet to help you identify stakeholders in this law (or in its discontinuation). – Locate data that could be used to evaluate the program in terms of its outcomes. Write a 1.5 page report in which you evaluate the law in terms of the outcomes you have specified. Project how these results might be interpreted by at least one set of opposing stakeholders. Include a bibliography and in-text citations explicitly referencing your research. You should draw upon three relevant sources.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.