Writing Homework Help

Your rough draft should include, at minimum:

• Three full pages of organized, coherent text–use formal, college-level writing
• Your topic proposal will become your paper’s introduction, the first paragraph of your paper/rough draft
• A 2-prong thesis statement (your research questions become statements: “Why did the ancient Chinese use bells in graves” becomes “This research will show why the ancient Chinese used bells in graves”)
• Your thesis statement should be located at the end of your first paragraph/introduction
• Underline your thesis statement
• A picture of your artwork with label: artist (if known), title, date, culture or location (from your topic proposal)
• Bibliography (from your topic proposal)
• chicago style

Rough draft upload requirements:

• Word doc with 1″ margins
• 12 point font
• Text should be double-spaced with no additional spaces between paragraphs
• First sentence of paragraph should be indented
• Chicago Manual of Style for citations and bibliography
• Your paper should constitute your original ideas/arguments associated with your work of art

Be sure your thesis statement is underlined.

Student will create a 1500-word research paper based on the art object or monument selected from one of the global (non-Western) chapters in the Gardner’s textbook relevant to the time period covered in this class (30,000 BCE to 1300 CE).

This final, revised paper will represent the second revised and expanded version of the paper you have been working on over the past several modules. As such, this paper should be well written using college-level English and nearly error free. See grading rubric below for criteria regarding grammar, spelling, word use, rhetorical style and paper format. The research questions submitted with the topic proposal for this project should be commuted here to a well-researched thesis statement. Papers should address questions formulated from information gaps in Gardner’s or provide a reexamination of existing, possibly conflicting, published data on the topic. Students will be expected to critically apply concepts, vocabulary, content, themes and methodologies relevant to global art history, as assimilated in class lectures. This final project should reflect the culmination of critical communication, process writing, global concepts, art history methodologies and information and data literacy techniques acquired by the student over the course of the semester.

Avoid numerous or long direct quotes. If you do quote or paraphrase, be sure to cite your source. You should always cite your sources for anything you write, every time. To not do so constitutes plagiarism. Your bibliography should include credible, authoritative sources, as vetted in the earlier bibliography assignment keyed to this project. Whenever relevant, critically compare and contrast opposing claims by other authors who have published research on your topic. Includes footnote or endnotes and a bibliography. Follow the Chicago Style Guide, provided. Your paper should be formatted in a clear way with introduction, body and conclusion. As an art history paper, include photographs of art works discussed, properly labeled with artist, title and date. Photographs should be labeled figure 1, figure 2, etc. and referenced as such in the body of your paper: eg., “As seen in figure 2, . . . “