World History Term Paper Topics and Instructions
For the duration of the semester, you will be working towards the completion of an individual research project related to the specific content the course. The choice of topic will be entirely yours, but I do ask that you following the subsequent parameters.
1. Restrict your topic to some aspect of a society, civilization, or region of the world
2. Limit your scope to something had occurred between 1492 and the present
3. Follow an established approach to historical inquiry (i.e. a case study, a cause and effect report, a before and after analysis)
This research project will culminate in a 5-7 page term paper (double- spaced); but there are a number of other requirements that I would like you to adhere to along the way.
1. Maintain a five source minimum of primary and secondary materials a. no Wikipedia
b. no blogs
c. no internet-based sources for the first five
2. Use Turabian/Chicago-style documentation with footnotes or endnotes used as citations for quotes and paraphrases
3. Include a proper bibliography and title page as well as page numbers
one paragraph description – list of sources
completed text barring revisions
title page, bibliography, and documentation