Research Objectives & Questions to be Discussed in Your Essay:
• What are the most significant organizations formed for your movement that have had the greatest impact historically and/or modernly?
• What are the sources of division amongst reformers/activists? Is there disagreement on approaches on how they should present their desired reforms to the public/government?
• What has been the greatest challenge for this movement/reform in terms of achieving equality, either historically or modernly?
• What is the modern status and/or legacy of these movements today?
• How do you feel that you have directly benefitted, or are influenced by, the reform movements in the past or modernly?
Writing Requirements:
1. Your essay should be a minimum of 1000 words. This word count does not include any cover sheet wording, your footnotes/endnotes, or your works cited/bibliography page.
2. Your essay must be formatted using 1” margins for all margins (top, bottom, left and right).
3. Your essay should be typed using 12pt. Times New Roman font.
4. Your essay needs to be double-spaced.
5. Please do not include any headers (your name, course, date, paper title) on any written pages of your essay.
6. Your research essay should be accompanied by a cover sheet that states your paper title, your
name, your course, and date.
7. All of your sources should be cited using the Chicago/Turabian method. MLA will not be
accepted!
8. You must cite your sources using either footnotes or endnotes formatted in the Chicago/Turabian citation method. Please select either footnotes or endnotes based upon personal preference, just remember to be consistent throughout your essay with your citation method. Parenthetical
reference is not permitted.
9. If possible, you will want to try to incorporate your image into your essay by embedding it into the text. Otherwise, placing the image at the end of your document is acceptable (after the
conclusion and before your Works Cited/Bibliography page).
10. Your image should include a caption that describes the image and its relevance to your topic, this caption to your image should be at least 150 words. This word count does not count toward the
overall word count of your essay.
11. You must include a Works Cited/Bibliography page at the end of the document. Be sure you are documenting all sources used for your research paper, including your image source in this section. There should be agreement between the sources you document in this section and the sources you cite in your footnotes/endnotes.