Issues To Be Addressed & Guideline For Judges
What
Should Government’s Role Be As Regulator?
Content: Papers should be read to identify issues and assign points before giving any consideration to style, grammar and punctuation.
1-Why do you think
government regulation is needed?
If the issue is addressed assign 10 points
2-Give at least 3
examples of legitimate regulation and 3 examples of unnecessary regulation.
Assign 5 points for each example to a maximum total of 30 points
3-What costs are
attached to government regulations other than dollars budgeted for
administration and enforcement?
Assign 5 points for each example to maximum total of 30 points
4- Who should decide
what constitutes over-regulation? How
should the decision be made?
5 points “who” and 5 points “how”
= maximum total of 10 points
5- Choose only one of the following and write a persuasive argument:
There is too much government regulation today
There is too
little government regulation today
There is just
the right amount of government regulation today.
Allow 5 points for
each “because...” or “sub-argument” = a maximum total of 20 points
Deduct
10 points from papers 200+ words over the upper limit (1200+) or 50+ words under
the lower limit (700-)
Deduct 10 points for each Question not answered. Evaluate the answers to Questions to rank papers that are tied or very close.
Points
Trump Style
In past years we have come across
many well-written papers that fail to address the issues. These outstanding
papers have not won prizes because the student-writers chose to write about
something he/she cared about and did not follow the rules. Do not be dazzled by
excellent writing that fails to address the issues.
Omitting the answers to Questions or giving cursory poor answers may also
prevent a good writer from earning a prize.
The Harry Singer Foundation is the final judge and may over rule judges who fail to follow these guidelines.
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