Your paper needs to be 5-7 pages, typed and double spaced, with 1″ margins, and 12 point font. You need to use a normal font, like Arial or Times New Roman, nothing funky! Please put your name, the class time, and the title of your paper on the top left hand side of your paper. Make sure you submit your paper in Word. Your topic needs to be on something that interests you, and concerns the time covered in this course, basically, U.S. History from 1585 to 1865. You will need to use at least 6 sources. Three of them must be books, the rest can be online. At least three sources must be primary, the rest secondary sources. A primary source is one that is written during the time that your subject lived or your event occurred. For instance, if you were going to write on the Salem Witch Trials, you could use the actual trial proceedings as a primary source. A secondary source is one written after the fact, something like Carol Karlsen’s book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman. The Internet may be used with a great deal of discretion; not everything on a site may be historically accurate. If you have questions about using the Internet, please contact me. You will need a bibliography (works cited) page and footnotes/endnotes. Unless you are a history major, you may use the MLA format for both. If you are a history major, you will need to use the Chicago Manual style. Both can be found at the Purdue Owl: Link (Links to an external site.) Do NOT plagiarize. Do NOT buy a research paper. Everything must be in your own words; do not paraphrase someone else’s work and try to pass it off as your own. That is still plagiarism, and you will fail if you do so. Your papers must be written in Microsoft Word format, if they are submitted in any other format they will not be accepted, and you will receive a 0 for the assignment. You also need to submit your work on time, as late papers will not be accepted either. If you would like any help with your paper, please email me; I will be happy to assist you whenever necessary!
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