Research About Utah

Research must include five (5) pages of content and a separate reference page. The font for biographies should be no smaller than 12, using Times New Roman and one inch margins. All pages should be numbered. Students will choose an individual or state from a list generated by the instructor. Biographies should also include a reference page, with no fewer than five references. Only primary and secondary sources will be allowed: Newspapers, oral interviews, journal articles, etc. Also, only two internet and/or data base sources will be allowed. Papers that exceed the required amount of internet or data base citations will drastically reduce in points. All papers must include proper citations using MLA. Papers not having proper citations and references will receive a failing grade, with no exceptions

Writing Assignments:Writing assignments, based on texts chosen by the instructor, assess students' proficiency in using historical documents (learning outcome #6) and constructing well-written essays (learning outcome #7). The number of out-of-class essays assigned varies among individual sections of the course but includes, in all cases, a total of at least five typed, double-spaced pages (approximately 3,000 words). These writing assignments assess the ability of students to think and reason clearly, to organize an essay according to accepted academic conventions, and to communicate their ideas effectively in their own words.