(3 pages, 1.5 spaced, 12 ft.)
Course Title: protest postwar Europe
Topic for Paper: Peace and Anti – Nuclear Movement
Short paper:
Select a secondary source on a topic of interest to you—ideally on a topic that you plan to explore in your final
paper. The secondary source should be a book published by a university press (or by an academic trade press—check with us if you are unsure).
Your paper should address the following points:
–Identify the author and provide information on his/her professional affiliation and name a few of the other
works he/she has published. (The point here is not to list all the author’s academic affiliations and publications, but to give the reader a sense of his/her area of expertise and research focus.)
–Describe the range and kinds of sources (primary and/or secondary) the author used.
–Summarize the book’s argument. What is the author’s thesis or interpretive approach?
–Articulate what you see as the strengths and weaknesses of the book—including the kinds
of sources used and not used, the quality of the author’s interpretation of those sources, and
the strengths and weaknesses of the argument. How effectively does the book address the
issues it raises? Does it succeed in convincing you that those issues are significant and
worth raising in the first place?