Instruction
The purpose of this PDA essay is to practice all the skills you've learned so far: developing a thesis, creating an outline to organize your essay, writing an essay using quotes from the document to support your thesis, and citing that source with Chicago style footnotes and bibliography.
Pick ONE of the documents assigned for the common core paper, and write an essay about how this document contributes to our understanding of the debate about whether or not the government should intervene in economics.
Come up with a thesis, and discuss at least three points based on the document that support your thesis. Use evidence from the text, including at least two but no more than four quotes, properly cited using Chicago style. Quotes should NOT dominate your essay ( no more than 25%), but rather illustrate or support your points. Finally, write a conclusion that ties your whole argument together. You must also use an outline to organize your essay, and turn that outline in as well.
A sample paper and a guide to Chicago style citations may be found on Blackboard under "course content."
Sample Footnote:
1. Firstname Lastname. "Title of Web Page." Publishing Organization of Name of Website. URL.
1. Ida B. Wells. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1982)." Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3614.
Note: you only need to do your first citation this way. All further citations, since they come from the same source and there is no page number, will just read ibid.
Sample bibliography:
Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Web Page." Publishing Organization of Name of Website. URL (Publication date and/or access date if available).
Wells, Ida B. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1982)." Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3614 (accessed October 2, 2018).
Checklist/rubric:
header with name, prof name, full course number, date and title - 5 pts
proofread and written in formal academic style - 15 pts
outline - 15 pts
thesis - 15 pts
at least three points that support your thesis- 20
2-4 quotes that support your points, with Chicago style footnotes and bibliography - 20 pts
conclusion that ties your document together - 10 pts