For this project you will choose a particular type of transnational crime. You will then create a video in which you simulate testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Here is an example of a real-life testimonial. If you like you can have someone question you as part of your video, but it is fine just to do opening remarks and skip the questioning part.

Instructions
For this project you will choose a particular type of transnational crime. You will then create a video in which you simulate testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Here is an example of a real-life testimonial. If you like you can have someone question you as part of your video, but it is fine just to do opening remarks and skip the questioning part.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?411236-1/william-brownfield-testifies-transnational-crime

Before you begin video production: Write the text of your testimony just like you would a written policy assignment. You’ll need to work from a transcript with citations for your sources. Remember, you should not take anything from a source word-for-word without putting it in quotation marks, citing it, and referring to it in the References List. Testimony before a committee like this needs a high standard so any hint of plagiarism, and that is not good. Focus on paraphrasing rather than quoting – because it’s supposed to be your own words anyway. You can share the thoughts of others (cite them) but most of this needs to be in your words. For example, “John Mayer suggests that …” (Mayer 2020, 17). You would read the “John Mayer” part but not the citation. Any questions about this, ask me.

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