Prepare a 1,000-1,500-word essay exploring your narrowed topic and thesis as well as utilizing the primary and secondary sources from your annotated bibliography.
Give your paper a title.
Provide in-text. end note style citations according to the The Chicago Manual of Style. For example, place the number of the citation in parenthesis at the end of the sentence, as shown below:
In 1814, Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the decisive Battle of New Orleans. Later, Jackson assaulted the people of New Orleans, too. By the time he left, most New Orleanians despised the man (1). Jackson’s degradations did not end with New Orleans, though. Later in life, following the end of his presidency, the one-time hero and long-time conspiracy theorist fell into bankruptcy and faced the prospect of losing his home, the Hermitage, to foreclosure. Jackson managed to save his house by bribing members of the Tennessee legislature to pass an act allocating taxpayer funds to pay off his mountainous debts in exchange for the Hermitage’s deed. True to his low character, however, Jackson demanded and won the right to live in there, rent free, for the remainder of his life, making Andrew Jackson the only former US president to end up living in government subsidized housing (2).
At the end of the article, include the citations as if they were endnotes, such as:
1. John Q. Smith, The Intolerable Life of a Man Named John Q. Smith (New York: Smith Publishing, 2010), 78.”
2. Ibid., 80; Ima Writer, “Andrew Jackson: Redneck Jerk,” The Journal of Southern History 45 (Spring 1963), 208-13; Major Irony, “Andrew Jackson’s Face on the Twenty Dollar Federal Reserve Note,” Journal of Profoundly Stupid Economic Policy 2 (November 2012), 3.
Write annotations for each source you have cited. Annotations need not be longer than a brief paragraph. These paragraphs must describe what information you intend to draw from the source and how that information supports your thesis. Refer to the following sites for annotation help:
Your Research Article Project submission must be based upon the use of primary and secondary sources. If you are unfamiliar with these terms, click the following links for more information about what constitutes a primary or secondary source:
at least three scholarly, secondary sources as well as at least two primary sources.
You may not use the following sources for information in this assignment:
your textbook
Wikipedia, or Wikipedia-like web sites.
about.com, or associated sites.
ask.com, or associated sites.
non-scholarly-minded web sites. In other words “Johnny’s Totally Awesome World War II Web Site” won’t work.
juvenile literature.
encyclopedias of any kind.
book reviews.
