Reading Assignment for Thursday, February 1
Download reading assignment here: Civil War Letters and Diaries AssignmentPaper #1: First-Hand Accounts of the Antebellum South
Due Date: In class, Thursday, January 25Assignment (Word Document)
Sample Footnote Format:
First Reference:
Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1868), p. 53, Documenting the American South, University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 6, 2005.
Subsequent References:
Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 72.
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Before turning your paper in, you might find it useful to consult this checklist:
Does my paper contain:
___an argument?
___an introduction that establishes the topic, the argument, and the sources to be used to prove that argument?
___a conclusion that pulls together the argumentation?
___evidence from the sources (quotes, examples) that substantiate the argument?
___citations for the evidence used?
___clear organization (including topic sentences that introduce the general topic of each paragraph)?
___good grammar? And is it written for an uninformed reader (i.e. someone who has not read your evidence)?