Course Calendar Week One Jan 26th — Course Introduction: Expectations, Guidelines, and Important Keywords Jan 28th — A Quick Overview of America in the 19th - 20th Century Ritterhouse Reading Weel Two Feb 2nd — Newspapers, Media, and the Creation of Identity Mitchell Reading Feb 4th — Commodifying Identity: The Rise of Advertisements and Selling a Myth Schultz Reading (Chapter Four and Conclusion ONLY) Week Three Feb 9th — Power of the Photograph: How the Other Half Lives Riis Reading Feb 11th — Entertainment as Control: The Dime Novel Denning Reading Week Four Feb 16th — Quiz One Making an Enemy, Part One: Domestic “Threats” Feb 18th – Making an Enemy, Part Two: Incoming Foes Lee Reading Week Five Feb 23rd — Domesticity and Expansion Kipling Reading Feb 25th — The World’s Fair: Hand-Crafting Exclusion Wexler Reading Week Six March 1st — Paper One Due Making an Enemy, Part Three: Selling Wars Wilson Reading Propaganda Images March 3rd — The Birth of a Blockbuster: D.W. Griffith Rewrites American History Foner Reading Week Seven March 8th — Enemies of the New Order – The United States and the 1920’s Gardner Reading March 10th — Against Foes Unnatural: The Great Depression and the Horror Genre Week Eight — SPRING BREAK! (WOO!)
This is the Title – It Starts No Lower than the First Line This is how your paper should look. You should not deviate from this format unless explicitly requested by a professor. Failure to follow this format will result in a substantial reduction in your paper grade. If you do not know how to format your paper, please make an appointment at the Writing Center or contact me. For papers requiring one, you will need a thesis statement, which is explicitly what you plan to argue in your paper. A good thesis, especially for a short paper, will be concise and directly lay out what you intend to discuss. For instance, “The formation of illegal identities by the United States government is best articulated in works by Gunderson and Payne in regards to Russian and Australian immigrants,” is a fairly strong thesis – it lays out what you intend to discuss and, loosely, what evidence you will use. In the other direction, “Misogyny is bad,” while inarguably true, is not a strong thesis. Your body paragraphs should all reinforce your thesis statement. If you read a paragraph and it does not add to your argument, I would advise you to take it out. The body paragraphs are where you will incorporate evidence from your sources. If you use direct quotations, think of it like making a sandwich: first, create context for the quote; second, put in the quote in quotation marks, followed by a citation (Gunderson 6) / (Gunderson 2013, 6) / (Gunderson, 2013, 6); third, interpret the quote in your own words. You may also paraphrase, which is putting another author’s words into your own. This is still followed by a citation which will, as shown above, include at least the author’s last name and page number. Margins are to be set at 1” all around – no more, no less. If you think you’re being clever, you’re not. Font should be Times New Roman. Paragraphs should have no extra spacing between them – check your “Paragraph” settings. Ignorance of how to change these settings is no excuse.