Course Research Paper Guidelines
Subject:
The Subject of this paper is to be over an event, a group of people, or a topic that pertains to this course. The student can choose whatever topic interested them the most to write over. The point of this paper is to make you somewhat of an entry level expert on this particular topic. Some examples of subjects could be African Americans, woman, military conflict, slavery and/or indentured servitude, colonization, Manifest Destiny, the Cold War, labor and unions, the west etc.
Required Text and Sources:
To write this research paper the student will need to use at least one secondary source. The book is a secondary source so the students will be able to write the entire paper only using the text book. With that said, the student is able to pull information from outside materials. This includes both primary and secondary sources. The source, however, must be scholarly and legitimate. If in doubt please do not hesitate to ask me.
Length and Structure:
This paper is to be three to five double spaced pages long. The paper should be written in size 12 Times New Roman font. The paper is to have one-inch margins, and the page length does not include notes or bibliography. The paper cannot be any longer than five pages.
Thesis Statement:
All historical works include a thesis statement as all texts are making an argument. As this is a history paper a thesis statement is required. The thesis statement is the argument that your paper is making, and should be present in the introductory paragraph/s. The main body of the essay should reinforce your argument or your thesis statement.
Overall Structure:
The essay should be broken up into three distinct sections. The first section is comprised of your introduction, which includes your thesis statement. The second section should contain your body paragraphs that reinforce your thesis statement. The third section is your conclusion where you bring it all together.
Completion:
The essay must be turned in both in class and online through the plagiarism checker. This is to ensure that the essay is the students own original work, and not simply copied and pasted from a website. If the report comes back from the plagiarism checker that the student did plagiarize then the student will receive a grade of zero, and undergo the consequence of academic dishonesty as per the institution’s guidelines.
Style:
This research paper will be written in the Chicago Style. The Chicago Style is the style used by historians, and since this is a history paper Chicago Style is required. Below are examples of how to cite various sources in the Chicago Style.
Book:
Authors First Name Last Name, Title of the Book (Place of Publication: Publishers Name, Date of Publication), Page Numbers.
James Oaks, Et All, Of the People: A History of the United States to 1877 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 133-134.
Academic Journal:
Authors First Name Last Name, “Title of Journal Article,” Title of Journal Volume Number (Date of Publication): Page Numbers.
Pramod K. Nayer, “Marvelous Excesses: English Travel Writing and India, 1680-1727,” Journal of British Studies 44, No. 2 (April 2005): 213.
Manuscript or Letter:
Authors Name, What the Document is, date of the document, Where you found the document i.e. what collection the document was found, collection number, where that collection is located.
James Oglethorpe to the Trustees, January 13, 1733, Phillipps Collection of Egmont Manuscripts, 14200:13, University of Georgia Library, Athens.
Website:
Author, “title of the page”, Title of the website, URL, Access Date
Kyle Dalton, “Revolt of the Marlborough: The Toll of Captain Codd”, British Tars 1740-1790, https://essays.homeworkacetutors.com/write-my-essay/britishtars.com/2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online/08/revolt-of-marlborough-toll-of-captain.html, Accessed September 16, 2017.
Lecture:
Speaker, title or topic presented, location, date.
Professor Justin Jolly, The English Civil War, Tarrant County College: Southeast Campus, Day 2 Week 3 Fall 2017.
