History 108Spring Semester 2017Professor Oscar CañedoGuidel

History 108Spring Semester 2017Professor Oscar Ca edoGuidel.
History 108Spring Semester 2017Professor Oscar Ca edoGuidelines for EBSCO Review AssignmentFor this assignment, you are to read a journal article about a topic related to thescope of the entire course, and you are asked to use the EBSCO database from theGrossmont College Learning Resource Center. The link to the LRC databases isprovided in the Blackboard course menu. Please choose an article pertaining to anytopic that was covered in class, such as slavery, Civil War, US-Mexico War, colonialAmerica, etc. Once you decide on a subject, you must use one of the 6 followingjournals for your review:Journal of American StudiesJournal of American HistoryAmerican Historical ReviewJournal of the Early RepublicAmerican Nineteenth Century History*EthnohistoryWhen you find a suitable article, please send a copy of your article to my e-mailaddress, or send it through Messages for Professor in Blackboard. The article thatyou select must be at least 8 pages in length. I will provide further instructions onfinding your articles with a nuts and bolts video on how to properly use the database.The due date for this report is Friday, May 19 at 11:59 PM.Please turn in your paper through Blackboard. Late papers will be accepted for oneweek only and will be assessed with a full grade deduction. The report is to be 5-7 pages in length. Please use a title page and works cited page. (title page andworks cited page do not count toward page count of your review) You are alsoencouraged to follow the MLA or Chicago formats to develop this report. Pleasedouble-space your review. This review will count as 15% toward your final grade.For your works cited page, this an example of the type of the format you should follow,but you are welcome to use any comparable format of citing your article: Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, by Frank Lambert,Journal of American History; Dec. 1990, Vol. 77, Issue 3, pp. 812-837.In terms of the content of the report, I am looking for two main points ofdiscussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of themain points that the author is trying to convey to the reader. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What type of article is this? Is the authorpresenting an original feature, or is he/she conducting a book review? If this is a bookreview, what book (or books) is being reviewed? What is the author s purpose forwriting this article? What is the author s academic or professional background?As for the second point of discussion, this is where you provide your opinion orperceptions of the article. In other words, what did you think about it? What were thestrengths or weaknesses of the article? How did the article relate to the class? You aredefinitely encouraged to write in first person singular (I feel that , I think..) as youprovide your opinions. As a general rule of thumb, your EBSCO review should be about60% summary and 40% commentary. Thus a 5-page review with about 3 & 1 2 pagessummary and 1 & 1 2 pages commentary is an ideal proportion.As you develop your essay, please avoid both very short paragraphs andexcessively long paragraphs, especially those that run longer than one page. Try tokeep your longest paragraphs at no more than approximately 7/8 of a page. Do notuse your first paragraph to immediately begin a summary of your article. Useyour first paragraph to introduce the scope of your arguments, and provide an overviewof your objectives of your essay. And at the conclusion of your essay, use your lastparagraph to express your final thoughts and observations on the topic.
History 108Spring Semester 2017Professor Oscar Ca edoGuidel