5 Page Research Essay on the Crusades. Must include: MLA Format, Main Body Consisting of three pages, A review of the book including such as if you enjoyed the book, would you recommend it to anyone else? Author writing style and positives and negatives things that are in the work. Main Body should include some of the terminology that they used, the chronology of things that happened, and events that had things to do with social economic, political, and military factors with Chronology
WRITINGRUBRIC FOR HISTORY 1113, 1123, 2213
Research Papers
Exceeds Expectations (90-100%, A grade)
The work organizes and demonstrates a solid grasp of terminology, chronology, global contexts of historical events dealing with social, economic, political and military factors associated with the work. These ideas are arranged logically, flow smoothly with little to no errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The work is quite well conceived, well written, and well presented with excellent documentation.
Meets Expectations (70-89%, B-C grade)
The work is less organized and has more of a basic demonstration of terminology, chronology, global contexts of historical events dealing with social, economic, political and military factors associated with the work. The work is more elementary and lacks a solid grasp on the main ideas associated with the work. It contains some grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors, but still retains some adequate knowledge and documentation.
Does Not Meet Expectations (0-69%, D-F grade)
The work is very unorganized and reveals unsatisfactory knowledge of terminology, chronology, global contexts of historical events dealing with social, economic, political and military factors associated with the work. The work is written with minimal college level writing proficiency and lacks a basic grasp of main ideas associated with the work. It contains numerous grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors, and contains a lack of adequate knowledge and/or documentation.
“Book Report and Review” Research Paper
(WORTH 200 POINTS)
ASSIGNMENT:
For the Semester, students must read a historical work and complete a Book Report and Review on that work read. I will give the class a list of sources that I want to you to pick from. These will be posted on Canvas. Students are required to at least read a portion of the work and summarize the source along with some critical review of the work. The books must be either purchased or gotten from a library and/or internet source. The source must be from the list! Do not use other sources for the paper or points will be deducted from the Final Grade.
MAIN DIRECTIONS ON THE RESEARCH PAPER
The paper must include a cover page, double spacing using 12 font (no italics), minimum of 3 pages in length (for the main body). Your paper should include a work cited page of the book using MLA style; see this following website for an example of how to cite in MLA:
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-book
The main section of the paper (approximately minimum 2-3 pages) should include a book report about the work (summarization of the work). A short review section should also be included about the work; at least writing a paragraph size. This should be a form of criticism about the book. Examples: Did you like the work? Would you recommend it to someone for reading? What were some positive or negative aspects of the work? What were some positive, negatives aspects of the author’s style of writing on the subject?
For the research paper, a rough draft is not necessary for your work, but I will allow students to look at whatever rough drafts you have of your paper (by Appointment only).
Outline of what to include in your paper:
I. Cover Page (see this website for MLA citation:
II. Main Body and synopsis
III. Review of book
IV. Work Cited Page of Book
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-book
WHEN RESEARCH PAPER IS DUE/POINT VALUES:
This Research Paper will be due at the end of the Semester (See Academic Calendar for due date). It is mandatory and will be worth 200 points toward total semester grades. Students in this project must successfully learn to read and research historical topics with various primary and secondary sources (Learning Outcomes 2 and 3).
MLA STYLE COVER PAGE SAMPLE FORMAT
(FROM THIS WEBSITE:
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Example of a citation of a historical work in MLA format:
Author’s name goes first (Last name, first name, middle initial), City published in, Publishing company of the book, year published.
(Example from this website:
https://www.easybib.com
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