Guidelines for the Research Paper for Civil War & Reconstruction (112)
In this course all students are required to write
and turn-in a critical term paper, 10-12
pages in length, based upon your use
of primary and secondary sources on any topic in the Antebellum, Civil War,
& Reconstruction eras—a specific event i.e. battle or movement i.e.
abolitionism, specific men or women, issues of race, soldiering, medicine,
religion i.e. company chaplains, law, politics etc. The possibilities are endless. It is worth 1 / 3 of the total course
grade.
Please include the following to get full credit:
-Title
-Student Name and Course crn
#
-Page #s
-Good grammar and complete sentences—Spell-check to
avoid a deduction of points!
-1-inch margins
-double-spaced, 12-point font
-Endnotes/Footnotes (your choice of citation)
-Introductory paragraph and a clear argument or
thesis statement
-a separate Works-Cited page
-and, it must be typed-up
Points of Style:
Quotes:
-Avoid long quotes and block quotes that go
on for more than 4 lines.
-Otherwise,
the best use of quotes is to describe something, or to add the perspective of
someone from that time period.
-You
can always just pick out a section of a statement, use quotation marks, and
then finish in your own words.
-Remember
that paraphrasing (or putting something in your own words) works best most of
the time. Don’t over-quote.
Don’t
Plagiarize—attribute your sources accurately
-It
goes without saying that I expect that the work that you turn in is your own,
and not someone else’s.
Works Cited page:
For
this simply list your sources on a separate page at the end of the paper.
Last name, First name. Title (underlined) (Publisher city:
Publisher Comp., Year).
for ex.
Aley, Ginette. The American South (Atlanta:
University of Georgia Press, 2002).
If
it is a web address that you are citing, place these at the bottom of your
list, and insert the web address, followed by the actual name of the site.
Please
contact me if you have further questions.
I look forward to reading your work.