There will be one paper drawing on sources found in the Dumenil book. Choose one of the following options:
Letter:
Write a letter to the president of the General Motors corporation in 1945 arguing why women should be allowed to keep their jobs even though the war was ending and men were returning. Expectations:
The paper must be double spaced, Times New Romans 12 pt. font, 1500 words exclusive of footnotes, and saved in a docx file. Once saved you will submit the assignment to Turnitin via Canvass. Correct spelling is expected on each written assignment. Your paper must be submitted to Turnitin via Canvas. Failure to do so will result in a zero. Submit your paper using a .docx file. If you are using google docs, save it to your computer first filename.docx and then submit. It is to be in Chicago Manuel of Style. Use of ChatGTP, Grammerly, or similar software programs is NOT permitted on the assignment. Uses will be penalized at the professor’s discretion. Thesis Statement:
Having a main idea or organizing argument is essential. Your thesis statement should take a stand on the question under consideration or the letter and present your overall answer to the question. Avoid narrating or summarizing the source. Assume that we’ve all read the texts in question, and what we are now interested in is their meaning. Also look for an argument that allows you to say something complicated rather than simple and obvious. Evidence:
The test of a thesis statement is its ability to make sense out of the evidence under consideration. Some thesis statements cannot convincingly explain the evidence. On the other hand, several possible answers to a single paper topic can be the basis of an “A” paper. To make his or her case persuasive the writer must thoroughly discuss historical evidence. An unconvincing argument fails to provide proof for its thesis. This kind of paper might start out by taking a clear stand on the question, but then get bogged down in restating the thesis, or summarizing a source instead of explain how its evidence supports the paper’s ideas. Use the best evidence. Because the paper length is limited, stick to the most convincing, strongest examples available. Citations:
Historians put their citations in footnotes. The first footnote should include in the following order: first name and last name, title italicized (publication place: publisher, year), page number. This is done for you, minus a page number, at the top of the syllabus. For this paper, you should use, Lynn Dumenil ed., American Working Women in World War II: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2019), put a page number here then the period. If you do not know how to create footnotes for Microsoft Word or Pages, use Google for the instructions.
Repeated citations:
After the first citation include only the author’s last name, shortened title italicized, page number, then a period like this, Dumenil, American Working Women in World War II, page number here followed by a period.
Rough drafts and revising:
The final paper usually improves when it has been revised from an earlier draft. Revision allows the writer to sharpen his or her ideas and catch some of the organizational problems listed above. I’ll be happy to read and comment on additional rough drafts of the final paper, provided I get them at least five days before the due date. I will not provide instructions that guarantee an “A.” The best I can do is to recommend improvements. Plagiarism:
Cumberland students are expected to produce and provide personally generated academic work. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full or clear acknowledgment. Academic misconduct includes the unacknowledged use of materials and/or test/quiz responses prepared by another person and forwarded to an instructor for completion of an assignment. Incidents of plagiarism and/or academic misconduct may be adjudicated by the instructor or reported to the Academic Integrity Board (AIB). Use of machine learning (“bots”) to aid in writing this paper will also constitute a violation of Cumberland University’s statement of plagiarism and will be reported to the Academic Integrity Board for disciplinary action. This the book: Lynn Dumenil ed., American Working Women in World War II: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2019). I also uploaded my dra
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