What is the assignment? The essay is your opportunity to practice your writing skills search for the appropriate sources examine these sources and argue your findings. There are three options for the essay; you may address one of the following: Womens Rights Movement: What were the factors and developments of the womens rights movement who were the major players what were the outcomes and remaining issues? You can choose just one issue or the movement as a whole. African American Rights: What were the factors and developments of the African American rights movement who were the major players what were some of the outcomes and remaining issues? You can choose just one issue within this topic or the movement as a whole. Labor / Workers Rights: What were the factors and developments of the Workers Rights movement who were the major players what were some of the outcomes and remaining issues? You can choose just one issue within this topic or the movement as a whole. What are the rules of the assignment? FORMAT: 300 500 words (you can see this count in the lower left of your Word document) Name title bibliography do not count towards your word count. Put your name date and HST 118 in the upper left corner of the first page. Put your name and page number in the upper right corner (use headers/footers) Center your title in quotations (i.e. Womens Right to Choose) Times New Roman font 12-point font 1.5 spacing 1 margins on all sides Bibliography should be in MLA format (Resource: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ (Links to an external site.) ) Must use AT LEAST one source other than your textbook. You may use more than one of each but you may not use less. Reminder: Wikipedia is NOT a source! THE INTRODUCTION: The introduction for this essay should be one short paragraph (2-3 sentences). Its purpose is to: (1) set out the problem to be discussed; (2) define the sources you will use to explore the problem (4) state your thesis (what you want to learn from these sources). THE BODY: This constitutes the bulk of your essay. Here is where you provide context for your topic contextualize it within the time frame and then analyze it. III. CONCLUSION: This is usually one paragraph long and briefly recapitulates your thesis with a summary of your findings. The first sentence of the concluding paragraph is a clear specific re-statement of thesis. The conclusion should do more than simply re-state the argument. It also suggests why the argument is important in the bigger scheme of things or suggests avenues for further research or raises a bigger question. At the end include the bibliography in MLA Format: This is the text book we use
