Read pp. 227-250

Know the following terms:  bureaucracy,  civil service,  departments, deregulation, government corporations, independent regulatory commissions,  merit system,  spoils system, whistleblowers, senatorial courtesy

The materials in this chapter will be part of Test Two to be taken Oct. 27- Nov. 2

Check the following links:

BACKGROUND ON THE PENDLETON ACT

spoils system. The Columbia Encyclopedia,

The Spoils System versus the Merit System

 Federal Agencies & Commissions  go to this site and note the number of agencies

Whistle20's Federal Whistleblower Home Page

Whistleblower Disclosures

FORMAT OF RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
      1. Select one of the following questions.
      2. Your answer should be at least 200 words.
      3. Choose  a simple font (arial, courier), font size 10 or 12.
      4.  Be sure to save your work.
      5. Your work should be a Word document or saved as a Rich text file,Microsoft Office 2007 – If you are using this new version of Word you may need to save your documents as Microsoft Office 2003 documents with the .doc rather than the .docx extension.  If you are using Microsoft Works or WordPerfect word processing program, save your file and change the “save file as” to Rich Text Format.  This will allow your document to be opened by your instructor using any word processing program.     
      6. Send this question and the others from Chapters 7,8 and 10 as a single document using the WebCT Assignment link.
      7.  There is a five (5) point penalty for late work. Work will not be accepted two (2) days after the due date.

GRADING RESPONSE QUESTION:
  1. on the content of the response.
  2.  the mechanics of the answer.  (the Edited English standard will be used see below). 
  3. 20 points for the question.

Select one of the following Response Questions: Due Oct. 17 ( Fri. 12:00 noon). 

 1.  Given the number of agencies and commissions and boards can the President or the Congress actually govern the United States ?  Does the bureaucracy govern the United States?  why/why not?

2.  Are whistleblowers "good guys" or "bad guys"?  why?

3. Discuss/describe how the "spoils system" differs from the merit system. Which system is better? why?

Grading Standard  Edited American English is the form of English which is used in newspapers and magazines, in textbooks and fiction works, and in memos and letters.

Type I:  Gross Errors (-10 pts. each)

              A. fragment (ex.   Because I had a flat tire.)

              B. lack of subject/verb agreement (ex. The man were having a nervous breakdown.)

              C. fused/run-on sentence (ex. I had no choice I had to take the test.)

              D. incorrect tense or verb form (ex. The boy gone to the store for his father.)

Type II:  Major Errors (-5 pts. each)

              A. comma between subject and verb(comma fault) (ex. The mother,gave her son the apple.)

                 B. comma splice (ex. We went to the store,we  got some bread and milk.)

                 C. failure to show possession (ex. My husband pants are dirty.)

                  D. no indentation at beginning of paragraph and incorrect paragraph form.

Type III: Minor Errors ( -2 pts. each)

               A. misspelled words or incorrect capitalization

                B. misused homonyms or words used incorrectly

               C. commas added unnecessarily or commas lacking

               D. punctuation missing or incorrect

                E. incorrect pronoun agreement

               F. misleading pronoun reference

               G. unnecessary shift of tense or person

               H. words left out/dangling or misplaced modifiers.