Humanities

MVCC/Humanities 102 Article Review Paper Instructor: Fulton *Assignment: Read one of the selected academic journal articles listed below, and produce a 2- 3 page typed paper in which you address the following… 1. What is the thesis of the article? a. Note: you’ll need a direct quote on this from the article 2. What are the major supporting points to that thesis? 3. Does the author prove their thesis effectively? a. note: this isn’t “did you like it?” take the thesis, sourcing, narrative and overall argument into consideration. 4. How does it compare to other works on the same subject? *Articles: Each article is from a scholarly journal, and represents a variety of subjects. Each of these articles is accessible from Moraine Valley Library’s JSTOR databases. They are designed to approach a variety of themes from many different perspectives. Dell, Simon. “The Consumer and the Making of the ‘Exposition Internationale Des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes,’ 1907-1925.” Journal of Design History 12, no. 4 (1999): 311–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1316240. KODAT, CATHERINE GUNTHER. “Dancing Through the Cold War: The Case of ‘The Nutcracker.’” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 33, no. 3 (2000): 1–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44029692. McFadden, Margaret T. “‘America’s Boy Friend Who Can’t Get a Date’: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932-1946.” The Journal of American History 80, no. 1 (1993): 113–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699. Pankl, Lis, and Kevin Blake. “Made in Her Image: Frida Kahlo as Material Culture.” Material Culture 44, no. 2 (2012): 1–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24396670. Patterson, Jody. “Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.” American Art 24, no. 2 (2010): 50–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/656459. *Particulars/Structure: *The review must be typed, double spaced, 1 inch margins, and follow a word processing font. *It must be a minimum of 2 pages, and no longer than 3 (the works cited page doesn’t count in that calculation). *It must be typed in either essay format or answer each question in succession, and avoid 1st person wherever possible. *Again, you can organize it 1 of 2 ways. 1. essay format, so

*Intro *Body *Conclusion 2. answering it each question, one at a time. *Sources: As comparing and contrasting sources in scholarly works is a central analytical tool— using good sources when creating the work will be essential. *A minimum of 2 sources must be used in creating the work. Each must be cited in the text of your paper at least once (failure to do so constitutes plagiarism). *Your sources must be: the selected journal article, and one book (in this case your textbook is acceptable). All sources must be an approved academic nature (see source handout for examples of academic sources). *Citations: All citations in the works cited page or in text must follow MLA, or Chicago/Turabian Citation Style. What does that mean? All sources must be cited a minimum of once within the text, and the citation must occur directly after the sentence in which it is used. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, and will result in a minimum of a failing grade on the assignment. A works cited page is also required. *Note: *if no comparison source is present, or a non-academic comparison source is used, at best the work can earn a D. *No AI can be used in any form, be it for editing, organizational or content creation. If it is used, the assignment would minimally earn an F. *If sources are used in the paper, but aren’t cited in the paper, but only on the works cited page—the assignment would minimally earn an F.