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Describe your author’s method and style: Is this straight reportage? Is it an opinion piece? Are there charts, graphs, interviews, stories? Is the language Formal, informal, maybe both. Are your articles Persuasive, Narrative, or Expository? or do they combine those? Are there metaphors, similes, dialogue, descriptive language, cartoons, charts, stats, diagrams?

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Title: Your title is your Research Question (3 pts).

Section 1: State your position or argument CLEARLY with a general back-up reason. You should also state the reasons you chose this topic, or person– why you believe it is of interest and importance.
Then cite the two articles you are using to support your argument. Author, Title, Publication, Date (15 pts)

Describe your author’s method and style: Is this straight reportage? Is it an opinion piece? Are there charts, graphs, interviews, stories? Is the language Formal, informal, maybe both. Are your articles Persuasive, Narrative, or Expository? or do they combine those? Are there metaphors, similes, dialogue, descriptive language, cartoons, charts, stats, diagrams? (8/8 pts).

Discuss the background or larger trend within African history in which you intend to locate your arguments (ex. The colonial period, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the independence era, etc…)

Discuss how your PRIMARY SOURCES relate to your SECONDARY SOURCES

Research Paper Proposal (10%):

In this assignment, you will be responsible for combing through the course reader (Documents from the African Past) & primary sources online (provided by instructor).

You must then select four, related PRIMARY SOURCES that pique your interest and around which you will ultimately construct your research papers.

Then, you will need to identify TWO (2) more related SECONDARY SOURCES that will provide context for and inform your research paper. This proposal should include the following information in independent paragraphs and should be at least 700 words:

Present your  that you have formed from a careful reading of the PRIMARY SOURCE materials you selected.

Discuss the background or larger trend within African history in which you intend to locate your arguments (ex. The colonial period, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the independence era, etc…)

Discuss the nature (ex. Author’s origin, purpose of the publication, publication dates, positionality of the writer) of your PRIMARY SOURCES

Discuss how your PRIMARY SOURCES relate to your SECONDARY SOURCES

Common Style:

Typewritten, double-spaced, 1” margins

12 point font, Times New Roman

Length: minimum 700 words

Citation: Chicago Manual of Style Footnotes