History 108 assignment A Personal Approach to Modern American History.
History 108 assignment A Personal Approach to Modern American History.
FIRST 1: AUTOBIOGRAPHY: write a minimum 3 page double-spaced paper on you. How easy is that? Harder than you think, actually. The paper should be double spaced, standard margins, standard font.
SECOND 2: COMPARISON-CONTRAST BIOGRAPHY: write a short paper (5-6 double-spaced pages including sources used page) on two (2) of the people featured in your textbook. Compare the two people and find out how they are similar. Then, contrast the two people and highlight how they and their experiences are different. Focus on why they are important and their historical significance. You should use at least two other sources of information in addition to the textbook. I expect this paper to have a bibliography and citations (MLA style is fine). You should use standard 1 inch margins and an easily readable font.
the book name if you need it : Making History: A Personal Approach to Modern American History. Cognella: San Diego, CA, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-63189-382-7
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
