history paper

Five-page essay Choose one of the topics below from Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Use Tucker, The Middle East in Modern World History to provide your discussion with context. Your paper should be five pages only, double-spaced. It must have a title and a bibliography, which will include the two books you are to uses for this exercise: Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East and The History of the Modern Middle East. You need only employ citations when you quote directly from the text. If you indicate an author’s name in your essay, you need only provide the page number in brackets. For example: According to Cleveland and Bunton, “The Ottomans had a great empire” (48). If not, then you must cite both the authors and the page number of the quote: “Abu Jamal does not fit into any neat sociological category” (Burke III and Yaghoubian, 269). This is the MLA method of citation.

Style: An important part of writing an essay is style. There should be a clear opening paragraph in which the central theme of the paper is introduced. Each paragraph should follow naturally from the last one. The author has to lead the reader through the essay making sure he or she does not get lost on the way or run into any roadblocks A student may know what he or she is writing about, but that information has to be communicated effectively to the reader. Essay writing style is to be contrasted with reportage. An examiner is not only interested in the amount of knowledge or the number of facts that a person knows about a subject. He or she also assumes the student is already familiar with the material. It is rather the manner in which the material is integrated and presented, namely the style, which is important. Content While style is important, no paper receives high marks without a solid ground floor of knowledge. This means that source material should be read at least twice, with an equal amount of time being spent reflecting on the author’s thought before a person begins to write. By taking time to think about how he or she is going to proceed, a student can concentrate on the one or two important points that will be presented in the essay, develop these ideas in a straight-forward manner, and eliminate a lot of unnecessary material in the process. In conclusion, we can quote Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s guidelines for a good essay: “In essays the form of presentation (literary quality, structure of the argument, even neatness of appearance) is taken into serious consideration.”