HST 101 American History to the Civil War
Paper Assignment 2
Please submit your paper to your Discussion Section
instructor’s Blackboard Turnitin EXCEPT if you are
in Nick Mason’s sections.
Choose ONE of the following questions:
1. You are an abolitionist writing an editorial for a newspaper
before the Civil War. Address all of the following: Southern
defenses of slavery, actual slave experiences, and your own
justification for how, and when, slavery should be abolished.
Your thesis statement will state your position on slavery and
how you think slavery should end (immediate, gradual, and/or
colonization).
2. It is the 1830s, and you are a journalist writing an editorial
that defends Native American rights. Address all of the
following: confiscation of native land (through treaty or
warfare), native resistance and native accommodation to
government policies and to the encroachment of white settlers.
Length: 5 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt font. Approximately 1500
words.
Sources:
Documents in Of the People and in Sources for Of the People,
information in Of the People, and Prof. Branson’s lectures.
Although you should not rely exclusively on the documents,
they should be a significant part of the evidence you use to
support your position.
How to cite your sources:
Use parenthetical citations. Put the page number if it is from Of
the People. Put the document title as listed in the syllabus. Write
Branson Lecture with the lecture title you are citing from my
class lecture. For example:
• Textbook citation: Of the People p, 45
• Document citation: Granada 1.3
• Lecture citation: Forging a National Republic
Ensuring that your paper is plagiarism-free:
“Turnitin at the Library” allows students to submit drafts of
papers to check for possible instances of plagiarism before
they submit final drafts to their course instructors. The link
below gives full instructions for how to do this.
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/turnitin
Please note that this site is NOT part of HST 101 Turnitin.
You must submit your final version to your Section
Instructor through your Section Instructor’s HST 101
Blackboard.
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Suggestions for a well-written paper:
Your paper should have orderly construction, logical
sequences of ideas, and good grammar and sentence
structure.
Thesis
c Does your paper have a clear thesis?
c Is the thesis adequately supported by the evidence presented?
Sources
c Have you used as many relevant (and available) sources as
you need to support your argument?
Style
c Are your main points and arguments always apparent, or are
they unclear and hidden?
c Is your paper written in clear, straightforward English, and is it
free of jargon?
c Do you avoid colloquial language?
c Are sentences varied in length and structure (to keep the paper
interesting and moving).
c Are there awkward phrases and expressions instead of plain
and precise writing?
Mechanics
c Spelling
c Are tenses used correctly and consistently?
c Sentence construction and fragments
Organization
c How well is the paper organized? Do the sentences and
paragraphs advance the argument?
c Are topic sentences used for each paragraph? And does each
sentence in the paragraph relate to the topic sentence?
c Are transitions between paragraphs smooth and logical?
c Does the introduction lead into your thesis statement?
c Does the conclusion conclude?
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HST 101 Paper Assignment 2
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