History Paper

Short Essay

-worth 10% of total class grade

General Instructions. Please read carefully:

The paper must be between 3 to 4 pages.

12-point Times New Roman font, one inch margins, double spaced.

Avoid rambling, general statements and focus on specifics that refer to historical patterns, trends,

movements, and events discussed in the text.

You will be graded on the substance of your writing as well as the correct usage of grammar,

spelling, and organization. Write in complete sentences. Well organized papers will have a thesis

statement, an introduction, and a conclusion and be broken into several paragraphs with topic

sentences. Your thesis statement should be one or two sentences long. Your thesis statement

should appear in your introductory paragraph, most likely at the end of that paragraph.

Citations and plagiarism: If you quote phrases or sentences directly from the text you MUST

place these quotations in quotation marks and use appropriate citation (footnotes or

parenthetical). Copying directly from the text without quotations and citation constitutes

plagiarism, will result in a zero on the paper, and may be reported to proper disciplinary

authorities. Take this seriously. If you have any questions, please ask.