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Digital History Project Essay #1
An essential concept of this course is learning to use critical analysis to explore how different people, events, organizations, groups, and even technological advances, to name a few, have impacted life in the United States. For this course, your culminating assignment will be a Digital History Project in which you will combine writing with media (pictures, videos, social media) to produce a digital history project. Keeping that in mind, students will write two essays from which the framework for the culminating project will be created. This assignment asks you to select three items from your own life, PRIOR TO COVID (March 2020), that you believe a historian or history student might need in 100 years to better understand life in the United States before the pandemic. Once you select these items, you will need to write 1-2 page minimum explanation of why these items (Primary sources) will help historians and what it reveals about life before March 2020. If you have any questions about what to select, please contact me, and we can discuss. This essay has the following aims:
1. Find and identify three (3) primary sources that are connected to you, your family life, or your community life
- Describe the items, how they are connected to you, how they represent pre- pandemic life, and how this might help future historians better understand this period.
- You will be graded on how well you address steps one and particularly step two, which is in bold. You are college students, and I expect college-level work. Keep grammar and spelling in mind.Details
- Your DHP essay should be 1 – 2 pages (approximately 250-500 words).
- You must use Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced
- You must use at least three (3) sources to support your argument
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SOLID ESSAY
- Think Historically. Employ the strategies you have learned with respect to sourcing, contextualizing, active reading, using background knowledge, reading the sources, and corroborating.
- Think for yourself. Conduct the writing with your own brainpower, in your own words. QUOTING OR PARAPHRASING MUST BE CITED.
- Assert your thesis or main idea. You are required to introduce the central argument of your response in the first paragraph and then provide evidence to substantiate your assertions in the body of the essay. Last, your thesis statement must be highlighted and underlined!
- Use evidence in your analysis. Provide ample evidence to support your argument(s) by citing concrete examples and illustrations from your life. Identify relevant people, places, and events.
- Avoid referring to yourself. Do voice your perspective (after all, this
is your analysis of the documents and proposal) but do not use personal sentiments such as “I feel that…” or “I believe that…” Your essay should make a historical argument based on the evidence you provide. As such, refrain from writing in the first person. Historical work is NEVER written in the first person. Doing so will result in a loss of points. - Cite your work! Historians use the Chicago Style, however, for this proposal, students can use either APA or MLA formats.