Assignment for History of the World
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genocide_topic_essay_guide.pptxGenocide: Topic Essay
Your How to Guide
(narrated by me)
An Essay
A Thesis: You must PROVE something.
A thesis statement is merely the main topic of the essay and the author’s opinion or position on that topic. Throughout your essay you set out to prove that opinion.
An example from Week 3’s info:
‘Genghis Khan is not a leader who practiced true genocide.’
OR
‘Genghis Khan is an excellent example of a leader who practiced genocide.’
Three Points
You must have three main points to prove your thesis. These are also known as the topic sentence on the template you will use.
For the thesis – ‘Genghis Khan did not practice true genocide,’ one of your main points could be:
1) He killed everyone, everywhere and did not seem to discriminate.
Three Points X 3 Pieces of Evidence
With each of your three main points, you must back them up with three additional reason/detail/facts to support that main point. Confusing? Let me help.
For example: The main point – ‘He killed everyone, everywhere and did not seem to discriminate,’ could then be backed up be three specific instances in which this was true.
Help is Here!
Both in the Week 3 Materials and in the content folder labelled ‘Rubrics and Assignment Materials’ is a handy template that you should definitely use to help organize your essay. You can add text to this pdf or simply use it to help you create a word document.
Topics?
You can choose any topic covered in this course from week 1-12 or any topic outside of it, related to genocide. You just need to clear your choice with me before you begin your essay.
Please keep in mind that whatever topic you choose for topic essay, you cannot do again for the online group presentation.
Other Logistics
This paper is due on the Sunday evening (11:59PM) of Week 5
It must be formatted in APA style referencing. Please see the resources available in the ‘Rubrics and Assignment Materials’ folder to help you out with this.
There is also an example APA Reference list at the end of this presentation.
The essay must be between 1200-1500 words. And formatted in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font with an appropriate title page.
Final Questions
Please direct any other questions to the online discussion forum that has been created for the
Topic Essay. I will be monitoring questions from
there and you may also find you get helpful
answers from your brilliant classmates.
Before emailing me, please ensure the answer to your question is not answered in this PowerPoint video or on the rubric that is attached to this assignment.
I will not answer emails in which the answer is obvious – you must be responsible for your own learning. I’m mean like that ;)
APA Style
APA Referencing is a MUST for everything in this course. You must use it in your essay, in your group presentation and your reflection journal. Therefore, it’s pretty important to know!
APA Referencing must have an in-text and reference page component. Within the text you must give me the last name of the author and the date of the publication in brackets after the information you used from your source. For example (Smith, 2010).
APA Style Reference List
APA Style Reference List
Important things to remember:
The APA reference page needs to be in alphabetical order
Any source you use in your research, MUST be sourced in-text and in your reference page
Not sourcing will make you lose major marks on all assignments
Use this video to help you out: https:// youtu.be/10eg_GB_A9E
