After reviewing the material from this section, construct your complete research article.
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.
Note: titles and bibliographic entries are not part of the word count.
Give your paper a title.
Provide in-text, endnote style citations according to 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 U.S. 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.
