Assignment Instructions
Select ONE of the CBRN categories, then pick ONE particular agent from that category and based on our readings this term, place yourself in the role of a terrorist and offer your perspective of how a terrorist event could be conducted in your hometown and then provide your perspective on how to prevent such an attack and support your work by a variety of academic material to give your opinion more validity.

Your essay should approximately 5 pages. You will need to have a cover page or the reference page; however, they are NOT included in the page count for your essay. All references should be cited using the in-text parenthetical Turabian format. Be sure to make a clear thesis statement and argument and use examples to support your analysis.

The paper should be approximately 5 pages for the body of your work, double spaced (cover and reference pages are required – note that they are not factored into your page count). Appropriate writing requirements using in-text Turabian style formatted citations and compiling a complete reference list in accordance with the Turabian guidance are part of the requirement.

No abstract is required.

Save your work as a Microsoft Word document entitled ‘YourLastNamewk#.doc’ (i.e., Smith1.doc) and upload this document as your assignment.

Your work should consist of:

Introduction (this will have a well-defined purpose statement in your intro paragraph that provides guidance to the reader about what you are going to cover in your paper.)
Selected CBRN Agent background
Proposed Terrorist Scenario
Prevention Strategy(s)
Conclusion
STYLE AND CONVENTION:

All written submissions should be submitted in a font and page set-up that is readable and neat. It is required that students adhere to the Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th Edition format, which is described below and is a requirement of the APUS School of Security and Global Studies. Assignments completed in a narrative essay or composition format must follow Turabian guidelines. This course will require students to use the in-text parenthetical citation and reference list style established by Kate L. Turabian, in which case students should follow the guidelines set forth in A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations ( 7th ed). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press format. Specifically refer to sections 18 and 19 in the manual from p. 216 through p. 280.

Additionally, I will use a rubric to grade your papers.

Assignment Rubric

The rubric is a requirement of the university.

Typewritten in double-spaced format with a readable style and font and submitted inside the electronic classroom (unless classroom access is not possible and other arrangements have been approved by the professor).
Times New Roman styles in 12-point font.
Page margins Top, Bottom, Left Side and Right Side = 1 inch, with reasonable accommodation being made for special situations and online submission variances.
Complete an appropriate page header with page number for each page.
Create an appropriate title page.
Papers are recommended to be written in the Turabian style, specifically the in-text parenthetical citation and reference list style established by Kate L. Turabian, in which case students should follow the guidelines set forth in A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (7th ed). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press format. Specifically refer to sections 18 and 19 in the manual from p. 216 through p. 280.
Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize: books, peer reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc. (may be electronic of course and the Turabian manual lists all the types of possible resources and reference formats, hint…hint), and valid web sites (use caution with these).
The paper need to be approximately 5 pages for the body of your work (not including the title and reference pages in the page count). Points will be deducted if the minimum page requirement is not met accordingly.
Remember you are a prestigious undergraduate college level student and expectations are high for quality work!
Above all…please have fun and learn, learn, learn with this endeavor

Turn It In Procedures

This course has a requirement for ALL Papers to be submitted through Turnitin. Originality Reports with a Similarity Index will be generated after the Assignment has been submitted. Turnitin supports attachments only so it is important to upload the assignment as a Word document.

Check the assignments folder for the status of your Turnitin report (which arrives about 15 minutes after submission). If there are originality issues evident in the report, you may correct them in your Word document and resubmit the assignment.

Turnitin will ignore any quoted passages in your assignment. Make sure all directly cited material is between quotation marks with a parenthetical cite at the end, for example, as in “limitations of the anarchical international society” (Bull 1977, 49). Summary citations, for example, should look like (Bull 1977). You may use block quotes, but note that these will show as questionable on the Turnitin originality report. Know that I look at the Turnitin reports closely as there can be many reasons that material is being identified — I never take the Turnitin report at face value