Writing Homework Help

The paper should support a thesis statement with information gained from research or investigation.

The paper will not be just a report presenting information but will be a paper that carefully examines and presents your own historical interpretation of the topic you have chosen and your interpretation of the information you have gathered.

• The paper may include consideration of problems and solutions, definition of key terms, or may refute arguments against your thesis statement.
• It will be important to choose a topic of interest to you.
• Approach this assignment with an open and skeptical mind, then form an opinion based on what you have discovered.

You must suspend beliefs while you are investigating and let the discoveries shape your opinion. (This is a thesis-finding approach.)

Once you have found your thesis, write the paper to support it.

• You will use some of the following critical thinking skills in this process:
• Choosing an appropriate topic, limiting the topic.
• Gathering information, summarizing sources.

Analyzing and evaluating sources.

Defining key terms.

1. Synthesizing information, comparing and contrasting sources.
2. Testing a thesis, making a historical argument, using refutation.
3. Amassing support for a position.
4. Documenting sources.
5. Because this may be a longer paper than you have written before and a complex process is involved, it is recommended that you complete this paper using the following steps:
6. Choose a topic related to chapters covered in The American Yawp, (Chapters 1-15) that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on. Your chosen topic should be focused. Pose a question that you really want to answer. You may want to begin with more than one topic in mind.

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this is the chapters:

• Indigenous America1
• Colliding Cultures2
• British North America3
• Colonial Society4
• The American Revolution5
• A New Nation6
• The Early Republic7
• The Market Revolution8
• Democracy in America9
• Religion and Reform10
• The Cotton Revolution11
• Manifest Destiny12
• The Sectional Crisis13
• The Civil War14
• Reconstruction15

feel free to let me know what type of topic you will create. Also feel free to add outside sources to have support of the research paper.