writing for political science
The publisher of your textbook offers an excellent daily news feed of newspaper articles on current events at the texts website.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/polisci/we-the-people9/essentials/news.aspx
Review these articles and find examples of themes raised in readings We the People
Ninth Essentials Edition
Benjamin Ginsberg (Author, The Johns Hopkins University), Theodore J. Lowi (Author, Cornell University), Margaret Weir (Author, University of California, Berkeley), Caroline J. Tolbert (Author, University of Iowa), Robert J. Spitzer (Author, SUNY Cortland)
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294969908
When you have found such an example, describe how the article offers evidence of the phenomenon raised in discussion how the article offers evidence that contradicts such a phenomenon. These descriptions can be brief - no more than 150 words each.