Research Paper Assignment

Student’s Name

World History, Andrews

Research Paper

Date

Original Title for yourPaper

This semester, you have the opportunity to dive more deeply into a specific element of human history that interests you and hopefully helps you learn something about your own ancestors or “tribe.” You will do this by choosing a region, an era and an emphasis, and completing your research on that topic. The era you choose must align with the course content for World History 1… in other words, your research must focus on a time period prior to 1400. Your paper must be 6 double-spaced pages in lengthand contain the following named sections: 

ü  Introduction – Include a purpose statement… What will your research be about? Why did you choose that time, place and focus?

ü  Core of Research – A write-up of what you discovered about your chosen time, place and focus. Be sure to include in-text citations that show where your information comes from. These should be in the format: (Weisner 28).

ü  Key Learnings – 3-4 concise statements, in bullet format, highlighting the most important things you learned while doing your research.

ü  Bibliography – Minimum 4 scholarly sources for your research. You can include sources from your Annotated Bibliography, but please do not attach your Annotated Bibliography. 

Examples of Format for Bibliographic Entries

Aurelius, Marcus. “Meditations.” In Heritage of Western Civilizations.Ed. John L. Beatty and Oliver A. Johnson. Vol 1. 8^thed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1995. 212-220.

Corbett, Bob. The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803: An Historical Essay in Four Parts. http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/revolution/revolution1.htm (accessed 1/18/2012)