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Homework: Writing Plan Progress
Overview
Throughout Modules One and Two, you have been guided through beginning your Project 1: Writing Plan homework, which you will continue to work on in Modules Three and Four and formally submit for completion at the end of Module Four of the course. This progress check homework provides you with an important opportunity to get valuable instructor feedback on the progress you are making and to ensure you are on the right track for your later submission.
Prompt
Module: Approaches to History has introduced you to how historians approach choosing research topics regarding historical events and asking research questions about those topics. After taking some time to explore the research topic samples in and research questions strategies in, describe a historical event you have chosen to learn more about and develop a research question related to that event. Your event (topic) must be an event in American History. You may choose a topic that is related to any of the case studies contained in this course, or you may choose your own topic, with the approval of your instructor.
Specifically, in this homework, you will submit parts of the following elements of your Project: Writing Plan for review by your instructor:
In Module: Approaches to History, learning block 1-3 (page 3), you worked toward the following element:
• Briefly describe the historical event that you selected. Why is this event significant?
In Module: Approaches to History, learning block 1-3 (page 3), you worked toward the following element:
• Based on your review of primary and secondary sources, develop a research question related to the historical event you selected. In other words, what would you like to know more about?