- The nature of the document including author and or the context in which it was produced. Who was its intended audience?
- Provide a brief summary of the document. Does it have any particular biases or points of view? It is it arguing in favor of a specific policy or action and if so by whom or what and why?
- Explain what insights the document offers to enhance our understanding of U.S. History since 1877 and or our larger discourse on the human conditions.
Requirements
It is expected that you will conform to the conventions of the profession when it comes to citing your sources in your written material. That means following the conventions of the Chicago/Turabian style formats (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/citation-guide.html). All citations will be in the form of footnotes (at the bottom of the page) and even though the book essays involve only one source there will be a proper bibliographic citation at the end of the essays. Since these assignments involve only one source and the sources are pretty standard one-author books the format of those footnotes and bibliographic entry will be pretty straight forward.
First footnote reference:
- Katie Kitamura, A Separation (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 25.
Shortened reference thereafter:
- Kitamura, Separation, 91–92.
Bibliographic entry:
Kitamura, Katie. A Separation. New York: Riverhead Books, 2017.
• Roughly 3 full pages
• MUST be thesis driven.
• Use textual support (quotations and paraphrases) from the text itself to substantiate you arguments.
• Use MLA or Chicago style to cite the texts including a Works Cited (MLA) or References (Chicago) page.