Posted: May 13th, 2021

The new requirements: read one book OR two scholarly articles, and write a paper about what you read. Pick your option below, and then read my note on formatting at the bottom of the email.

The new requirements: read one book OR two scholarly articles, and write a paper about what you read. Pick your option below, and then read my note on formatting at the bottom of the email.
(NOTE: if you are one of the four or five people who was on the ball and cleared your three-source project with me earlier, you can either write the original paper we agreed upon for some extra points, or drop a source or two and write the easier assignment below.)

Book: If you decide to pick a book, write a book review on it. Pick a subject that sounds interesting, and then find a book or two on Amazon that look worthwhile. I often will start on wikipedia, and skip to the bottom of a page to see what books a wikipedia article cites–you can found there. Anyway, once you have an idea or two, email me and clear your book with me. If your book isn’t scholarly, then it won’t be acceptable for the research project. What do you mean a scholarly book Meaning, it should have been printed by a trustworthy press, like a university publisher or a professional academic press (e.g.: the University Press of Kansas, Oxford University Press, Alfred A. Knopf, W. W. W. Norton, etc.). These books are written by scholars and edited by scholars, so the content is excellent, groundbreaking, and trustworthy. For instance, if you wanted to write a book on the Roaring Twenties and typed that into Amazon (which is a good idea, by the way), you would know that this book (https://essays.homeworkacetutors.com/write-my-essay/amazon.com/Simple-History-Roaring-Twenties-Thirties/dp/1507747322/ref=sr_1_2s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462249209&sr=1-2&keywords=roaring+twenties) isn’t a scholarly option because it’s a) an illustrated text meant for kids and b) it is from CreateSpace Independent Publishing, not a professional publisher. In the book review, tell me what the book is about, and what the author thinks about the historical subject he’s studying. Generally, the intro and conclusion are the spots you need to pay the closest attention, because the author will tell you what they think–the middle of a book is just proving their case. Be sure to spend at least one page of your review criticizing, critiquing, and/or analyzing the book’s argument and content: is the author convincing Why/why not How does that book change or improve how historians think about the subject What does the book show us new about the past

Articles: If you decide to use journal articles, run your sources and subject by me. You need to be very careful that you get trustworthy and scholarly sources. One was is to go to Academic Search Complete and log into the library (http://lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/loginurl=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspprofile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h). From there, search for your subject until you find two articles that you’re looking for. If you want to just google for your subject, that’s fine too (in fact, that’s often my first stop), but make sure you evaluate what you’re seeing; just because you found something vaguely historical via Google doesn’t mean it’s a trustworthy source. Also, even if the subject is trustworthy, it doesn’t mean it is scholarly; if you find an article on History.com, for instance, it’s probably factually correct, but you aren’t going to learn anything new there. If you don’t know how to search for scholarly articles, go talk to a Lone Star librarian, and they can introduce you to EBSCO or JSTOR, both of which will let you access most anything you could want to know about. Once you have your articles, you should read them, and compare and contrast them. If your paper was on Texas slavery, the authors probably have different views of it, or focus on different aspects of the subject. In your paper, explain what both of the authors examine, and how their work relates–do they agree with each other, or do they disagree Which paper is more convincing Which paper is more valuable, by showing us somethign new or important about the past

On format: 5 pages means 5 pages with 1″ margins on the page, double-spaced, in a normal font (i.e., Times New Roman, Arial, Calibri, NOT something unprofessional like Comic Sans, Wide Latin, etc.), in font size 10, 11, or 12. You do not need a title page. If you decided to included one, no, that doesn’t count towards the 5-page length I’m looking for. In terms of heading format, I don’t want anything complicated, because it’s a waste of space. Just give me something simple this:
Studenty McStudentface
History 1301/2
History Research Paper.
If you’re writing five or six lines for your heading, it doesn’t look extra cool or professional–it mostly looks like you’re trying to pad the length of your paper.

On citations: If you don’t know how to properly cite things, go here (https://essays.homeworkacetutors.com/write-my-essay/plagiarism.org/citing-sources/whats-a-citation). When you are writing a formal research paper, you don’t cite things you quote; rather, you cite ANY IDEA THAT ISN’T YOURS. If you don’t cite an idea you get somewhere else, that is plagiarism, and will result in an F on the research assignment. (That’s why academic books often have 100 pages of notes in the back–to make sure they credit every source they got ideas from.) You should use Chicago style for the research paper, and if you don’t know how, google it or ask somebody at the Writing Center.

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