Having read the first week's reading assignments, you will be able to formulate a preliminary statement of your thesis for your paper. You may want to change or modify this part as it develops in your paper, but at least identify your topic and briefly summarize what it is you intend to say. Before beginning the writing of your paper, develop an outline of what it is you want to cover. Some of the issues you may want to include will be technology, transportation, housing, urbanization and suburbanization, and any other topics that were of special interest to you during the course. You also need to answer an analytical question in your thesis statement.
Organization is the key to a good, coherent paper.
They should be used sparingly, however. Someone else's word are not necessarily better than your own. If you do use a quote, be fure to list source and page number. Longer quotes should be indented. The purpose is to have you think about and communicate systematically about the similarities and differences between London and cities in the United States.