Assignment for History of the World
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genocide_topic_essay_guide_ii.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 info:
‘The former government of Serbia including the former president Miroslav Milosevich and his cabinets are an excellent example of a leader who practiced genocide.’ or are not 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 – ‘The government of Serbia practiced true genocide,’ one of your main points could be:
1) They killed everyone, in the Srbrenica town and caused severe mental and physical harm.
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 – ‘They killed everyone in Sbrenica Town and caused severe physical and mental harm,’ 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.
Other Logistics
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.
APA Style
APA Referencing is a MUST for everything in this course.
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
