Topic: Give a history of the Catholic Church on the death penalty and note how it has changed over time. Each paper should be at least 1800 words in...

Topic: Give a history of the Catholic Church on the death penalty and note how it has changed over time. Each paper should be at least 1800 words in length and double spaced.Organization: Papers would benefit from an outline. If a paper cannot be outlined, the organization is likely weak. Paragraphs should have a topic sentence, and paragraphs should be related to an overall purpose expressed through a thesis sentence. No abstract will be required. Each paper should contain a short biographical section on the authors, taken from the internet; this section should not be more than 250 words. If the internet does not give biographical information for your author, then use paper sources. For your topic research, however, the internet is not the best place. Research: Research for the papers should follow the recommended primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are the "materials on a topic upon which subsequent interpretations or studies are based, anything from firsthand documents such as poems, diaries, court records, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, ethnographies, and so on." (Hairston, Maxine and Ruszkiewicz, John. The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers (4th ed). New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996, p. 547.) If you need help with sources, you can go to the Saint Leo Library website and refer to the link, How to Distinguish Between "Primary" and "Secondary" Sources. Quotation and paraphrase: More than three consecutive words used by another author need to be documented as a direct quotation (as a block quote or with quotation marks). Both paraphrase and direct quotation need to be documented with a footnote, an endnote or citation. The purpose of such documentation is to enable the reader to find your source with ease. Keep the use of quotations to a minimum, and use MLA formatting. If you need help with the formatting, you can go to the Online Library. Notice that MLA format does not italicize the abbreviations for titles of the books of the Bible, but does italicize the abbreviations of the titles for classical literature. Note also that page numbers are not given, rather section and chapter numbers are given; these latter enable the reader to find the location of your source material in any edition or translation. For classical works, including the Bible, please give chapter and section numbers. If you would like to add page numbers after chapter and section numbers, that is acceptable, but page numbers are not necessary. For classical literature accessed electronically give the URL, and if there are chapter and section numbers, please include those. If there are no chapter and section numbers, please submit paper copies of the sections of the material used.