Instructions for Analysis History Essay HIST 1302
Analytical Essay Basic Requirements:
Essay's Topic: The Progressive Era Reforms in the United States, and How the Progressive Era
Idealism Impacted America's Vision for the World.
Sources: Students will be provided a list of articles by the professor. Students must read these
articles to have a significant interpretation of what is required for this paper.
Students will rely on material discussed in lectures notes taken during class, and
students will use some of the articles' information to back up arguments made
throughout the essay.
Essay's Formatting: This assignment must be typewritten. This paper must have:
1. A cover page includes the paper's title, student's name, course's name, section number
and name of it, and date.
2. 1- inch margins, Times New Roman, font 12, and double space.
3. 5-8 pages of content (Introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.
4. A Works Cited Page, which list all sources used throughout the paper in MLA format.
5. **The professor will provide a sample paper in Blackboard, so students have a clear
visual example of how the assignment should be turned in***
Logical Reasoning: Employ a writing style that demonstrates an understanding of the topic
appropriate to the thesis and successfully explains your claims to others, using
primary and secondary sources to back up your arguments and analysis. Essays
must be written clearly and coherently.
Final Submission: Students will have to upload a Word-document essay on Blackboard.
1. Students will have to submit their essays on Blackboard in the link, "Submit Essay
Here."
a. *Students will have an opportunity to submit a copy of their paper only ONCE, so
students have to make sure that their essay was adequately submitted.
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
- This assignment seeks to develop student's abilities to conduct research, create a
compelling argument, and support that argument with sound reasoning based on
information found in scholarly sources.
- This assignment is designed to make students write their perceptions, ideas, and new
ways of thinking, using both primary and secondary sources to back up their arguments.
- This assignment is designed to make students think critically. And at the same time,
students need to put their critical thinking ideas in a concrete and coherent written way.
- Create an argument using historical evidence.
- Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.
- Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on
this period of United States history.
