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Research Paper Guidelines/ Assignment

 

♦ You will choose a person whom you feel has been the most influential person to American society. You will write a 3-5 page research paper that addresses the person’s accomplishments and his/her influence on various aspects of American society.

 

♦ Paper requirements:  
♦ Written in Times New Roman font size 12, with 1 inch margins, and double-spaced
♦ A minimum of three full pages, a maximum of five fullpages. Papers must have a works cited page (in addition to in-text citations)
♦ The works cited pages does not count as part of the page requirement

 

♦ You must use and cite at least 5 sources:
♦ Credible Internet site, book, magazine, newspaper article, etc.
♦ You may not use Wikipedia as a source!
♦ You must use at least 3 different types of sources 
♦ all sources can be found online; however, you must use different types; for example, you can cite 2 books, 1 article, 1 reference, etc.

 

♦ The content of the paper must include (but is not limited to):
♦ Introduction: (1 paragraph in length; your introduction must end with your thesis statement)
♦ Identify the person
♦ Gain the reader’s interest 
♦ State thesis
♦ Biographical Background information: (1 paragraph in length)
♦ Give a brief biographical background for your person
♦ Focus on information that is relevant to the person’s accomplishments/influence
♦ A Brief Description of person’s accomplishments/influence: (1 Paragraph in length)
♦ Give a brief overview of what the person accomplished or how he/she came to fame
♦ You must research and provide proof/explanation as to how your chosen person has influenced America in any two of the following categories: (2 paragraphs in length)--these must be in addition to the person’s main area of accomplishment or influence (example--you cannot do sports as an additional category for Babe Ruth or politics for George Washington, as these would be the main category for paragraph 3)
♦ Politics
♦ Pop culture (cannot be combined with Current Events)
♦ Science/technology
♦ Literature/arts
♦ Sports
♦ Current events/time period (cannot be combined with Pop Culture)
♦ Religion
♦ You must explain why/how your person has been the most influential to American Society: (1 paragraph in length)
♦ Using your research and proof for the categories above, explain how your person can be justified as being the “most” influential.
♦ Show how his her accomplishments have been significant to society as a whole
♦ Conclusion: (1 paragraph in length)
♦ Remind the reader of key points, areas of influence and how he/she has impacted society
♦ Your paper will be graded on the following rubric:
♦ Content(50 points)
♦ Spelling and grammar (10 points)
♦ Works cited within the text in proper MLA format (20 points) 
♦ will automatically lose 10 points if the works cited does not match the in text citations
♦ Works cited page in proper MLA format (10 points)
♦ will automatically lose 5 points if entries are not in alphabetical order
♦ MLA style headings/format (10 points)

 

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