Topic: Martin Luther King Jr.

Task: Research paper

Reference: APA

Word Count: 1650

Duration: 10 Hours

Task Description

Essay (65 points)• Essay meets the length & formatting requirements (e.g. paper is 6 pages of total text; APA-style, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman font, 1” margins)• Essay includes an APA-style Reference pageo & there are AT LEAST 5 communication scholarly references to support claims• Essay consists of an introduction, artifact description, method, findings, and discussion section• Introduction has a clear thesis o Method includes step-by-step analytical procedures o Discussion speaks to a larger rhetorical/communicative issue and makes an original and unique contribution to theory• Generally, the essay:o Is justifiedo Is constituted by reasonable inferenceo Is coherent

More of this instruction including a detailed outline is attached. Please keep time.

• Your choice of Sixties topic
• Essay must have a multi-part thesis that previews the main points/discussion topics of the research paper
• Research paper must be in MLA style/format (choose either MLA 7 or 8)
• 5 typed, double spaced, 12 pt. font (Times New Roman)
o 4 typed pages of text + 1 Works Cited page = 5 pages total
o 4 research sources required (minimum)
Must use variety of sources: books, articles from databases, journals, newspapers, etc. *** papers using ONLY internet websites will be returned with a failing grade
• incorporate quotations into your essay
o use parenthetical citation to document all sources used in the text of the paper
o make sure all sources used in paper are cited on Works Cited page and vice versa
o use lead-ins to introduce all quotations
limit quotations to three lines or less from original source
the paper must not be a “collage” of quotations; they are only a part of the essay supporting your discussion of the SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TOPIC YOU SELECTED; for example, do not write a biography of the Beatles—instead, discuss the significance/influence/impact of the Beatles on popular culture, song writing, political involvement, recording techniques, etc.
• plagiarism will not be tolerated—submitting other peoples” ideas and words as your own, or submitting a “pre-made/written-by-someone-else-paper” (it happens—THEY FAIL paper and/or class) is academically dishonest and you will be asked to drop the class