The Arcade Experience:
Game arcades holds an important place in numerous cultural histories, including in the United States.
Find an arcade in your area and visit it. If you cannot find an arcade, try to visit someplace where arcade games still exist, such as a movie theater, pizza parlor, or a used game store. If you have visited a great arcade in the past, you may choose to write your paper on that as well. Do some research on arcades in the 1980s and early ’90s as well. Write a paper about your experience, and compare the experience now to what you think it was like then.
Requirements
The papers you write in this course are academic research and history papers, not opinion pieces. While it is important to acknowledge your own subjective viewpoint, you will need to support your paper’s thesis with research and references, including a proper bibliography of resources and footnotes to those resources. Use multiple sources to conduct your research. Please support your statements and ideas with examples and quotations.
Include a bibliography of multiple references. The bibliography must be presented in the MLA (Modern Language Association) format.
Include footnotes in your text. Any direct quotes must be footnoted. The footnotes you include must be presented using the Chicago style for citations.
You may not use any computer-based text generation tools in your work. That means no use of ChatGPT or other AI-based content generation tools.
All student work should be in your own words. Cite at least three sources.
Directions
Neatness, organization, and presentation will be assessed, as well as spelling and grammar.
Make sure to place a header at the top of your paper that includes your name, the class name and section, the name of the assignment, the date, and the name of any software you used, if you used any.
Please include a bibliography of at least three sources in MLA format:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01
Try one of these websites for creating a citation in valid MLA format:
https://www.grammarly.com/citationsLinks to an external site.
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-websiteLinks to an external site.
Include at least three footnotes in Chicago style format: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/chicago_manual_of_style_17th_edition.htmlLinks to an external site.
This paper should be a 600-word (minimum, exclusive of quoted passages, footnotes and bibliography) essay written using the word processing software of your choosing, and delivered in PDF format.
You can write this essay using any means, physical or software-based.
You may hand-type this assignment, but must deliver it electronically, so scan the hard copy and submit the scan in PDF format.
The Canvas Student Guide provides instructions for submitting an online Assignment
Rubric
Points Criteria
+10 Neatness, organization, presentation, spelling and grammar.
+5 Header at the top of paper that includes name, the class name and section, the name of the assignment, the date, and the name of any software you used, if you used any.
+15 Includes a bibliography of at least three sources in MLA format, and at least three footnotes in Chicago style.
+10 Paper is at least 600 words in length, apart from any quoted passages, bibliography, and footnotes, which are not counted for the minimum word count.
+40 Demonstrates that an arcade was visited by author, along with critical thinking skills, comparative historical perspective, and examples to support statements and ideas.
