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Assignment: Writing Plan Progress Guidelines

Overview

Throughout Modules Three and Four, you have continued to work on your Project 1: Writing Plan assignment, which you will formally submit for completion at the end of Module Four of the course. This progress check assignment 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: Communicating Historical Ideas has considered how historians communicate their message to a specific audience. Return to your submission for Progress Check 2 and identify an audience that would be interested in your event and an answer to your historical research question. Keep that audience in mind as you write your initial thesis statement as part of this assignment. You will also describe primary and secondary sources you could use to research your historical event.

Specifically, in this assignment, you will submit the following elements of your Project 1: Writing Plan for review by your instructor:

In Module I: Communicating Historical Ideas, Learning Block 3 to 4 (page 2) in the webtext, you completed the following element:

1. Describe the historical event that you selected. Why is this event significant?

2. Describe at least two secondary sources that you could use to research your historical event. Your sources must be relevant to your event and must be of an appropriate academic nature. In your description, consider questions such as: What are the similarities and differences in the content of your sources? What makes them appropriate and relevant for investigating your event? What was your thought process when you were searching for sources? How did you make choices?

3. Describe at least two primary sources that you could use to research your historical event. Your sources must be relevant to your event and must be of an appropriate academic nature. In your description, consider questions such as: How do these sources relate to your secondary sources? What do they add to your understanding of the event? What makes them appropriate and relevant for investigating your event?

In Module II: Communicating Historical Ideas, Learning Block 3 to 4 (page 3) in the webtext, you worked toward the following element:

1. 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?

2. Create a thesis statement based on your research question. Your thesis should be clear, specific, and arguable, and state a claim about your historical event. As you create your thesis, keep in mind an audience that would be interested in your historical event and research question.