Things You MUST Include in Your Papers:
A thesis (what’s that? See the handout on thesis statements)
A header with your name, class, and date
Double spacing
At least one quotation or reference to a text in every paragraph except the introduction and
conclusion
1 inch margins
Multiple paragraphs throughout the paper, each roughly half the page in length
Thing You NEVER Include in Your Papers:
Quotations from dictionaries (webster, Oxford, whatever)
Quotations from lecture, powerpoints
General words like “good,” “bad,” or “important”
A first paragraph that is the entire first page, or more
Title pages
Large quotations from sources that are not cited (this includes copying something from a
website, and that includes hyperlinks). This also counts as plagiarism, see university policies on
this matter
This assignment requires you to use themes from the readings and debate critically the meaning, scope, and/or practices. Critique does not simply mean your opinion; it must be well-reasoned and backed up by reconstructing the arguments and ideas from the readings. You may be surprised by the readings, think they are interesting, or incredibly boring. … In these shorter essays, you are expected to make a strong argument about a specific week’s readings, and to support this argument with theoretical and empirical evidence. External sources are not required for the short papers. Your sources for these papers are class readings
Paper Questions: European expansion was a planned, imperialist project mainly oriented around economic gain. Agree or disagree with this statement.
Resources:Age of Empire chapter 3 only
lake-British and American hegemony compared.
Birth of an Atlantic Word and Development of Commerce between Africans and Europeans Ch1 and 2 from Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic World 1400-1800