research paper

AMST Fall 2020 Research Paper Paper due: Friday, December 11, 12:00 Noon, Canvas.

Utilizing a minimum of one (1) assigned reading from the course syllabus and three (3) outside sources from peer-reviewed academic journals or book chapters that you have located yourself, write an essay about a research topic of your own choosing that is related to a theme that we have explored in AMST. Your paper should advance a clear thesis, one that you will support with cited evidence from the sources that you engage with.

Requirements

1.) The essay must contain a clearly defined thesis statement which the reader should be able to identify in your first paragraph. 2.) Your chosen outside (non-syllabus) sources must be either:

a.) research articles from peer-reviewed academic/scientific journals. It is your responsibility to verify that the journal is peer-reviewed.

OR b.) chapters in a book published by a university press. An equivalent scholarly press, such as Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell, or Lexington Books, can also be used.

3.) Essay must have a clearly defined introduction and conclusion. 4.) The essay’s text must be a minimum of 5 full pages, double-spaced, in 12-point font. 5.) The essay must have a works cited page containing complete citational information according to either MLA, APA, or Chicago Style. 6.) Essay must have a title page containing your name and a title of your choosing (thus, the total page length of your document will be a minimum of 7 pages). 7.) The paper must be submitted as a MS Word document or a PDF (doc, docx, PDF). 8.) Essay must include extensive citations from the texts, including page numbers. The citations should be footnotes, which looks like this,1 and this.2 No in-text citations should be used in your paper.

1 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014), 73. 2 Adam Rome, “‘Give Earth a Chance’: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Sep. 2003), 531.