Overview
Paper guidelines
- Read articles and watch movie
- Make sure to answer all questions in the prompt
- Tips on writing an argumentative essay
- Max 1,200 words (double spaced 4 or 5 pages, 1,000 words)
- Prompt
- What are the brought to light by the excavations at methane
- What were the field methods used on the project
- What was important about ancient methane
- who besieges methone and brought an end to the settlement, when did this happen and why
- What individual find at the site caught your attention the most and why
- Synthesize the information, what’s the most important stuff about the articles, what answers the questions) — in your own words
- Be consistent with citations, doesn’t matter which used
If talking about a photo in detail include it
Do not simply copy down or blindly accept or blindly reject what an author (any author) is saying in a book or article or website. Also, do not simply write a summary of your topic. Construct a thesis: what is it that YOU are arguing? Discuss the evidence and what are the assumptions being made.
Papers with section headings are usually the best structured.
Be critical in a thoughtful way: construct a logical argument, evaluation, and/or interpretation of your topic and back it up with evidence in which the interpretive method(s) or models used are systematic and explicit.
When you quote an author, be sure to place what s/he is saying in quotation marks and cite her or him appropriately
Students are free to use either footnotes or citations in brackets (Harvard system).
Footnotes have four main uses:
1. To acknowledge the source of statements in your text: either facts, opinions, or
direct quotes
2. To make cross-references to other sources dealing with the same subject
3. To make incidental comments on what you are discussing
4. To make acknowledgments (this is usually done in the first note)
For uses 1 and 2, you may make parenthetical references including page numbers either within the main body of your text (Harvard system) or within your footnote and list the full reference in your bibliography. If you choose to make parenthetical references, remain consistent throughout your paper. Parenthetical references must always include the name of the author (unless you use her or his name in the sentence), the date of the work, and the page number or numbers of the information cited or summarized. Page numbers may only be omitted when you are discussing ideas found throughout the author’s work.
writing assignment should be around 1,000 word (750-1,200 words or about five pages in length). Please no more than 1,200 words.
WILL BE SUBMITTED INTO TURNITIN. DO NOT USE ANY SORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
PROMPT: Writing Assignment 1:
“The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: The Movie.” Please view the following film on the UCLA Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDetails/webinar-... , and also read S.P. Morris and J.K. Papadopoulos et al., “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Report on Fieldwork, 2014-2017,” Hesperia 89, 2020, pp. 659-753 (reading 22). Prepare a short overview of the material covered. In your overview, please make sure to answer the following questions: i) What are the periods brought to light by the excavations at Methone? ii)What were the field methods used on the project (e.g., excavation, surface survey, geophysical and geomorphological prospection, LiDAR, etc.)? iii) What was important about ancient Methone? iv) Who besieged Methone and brought an end to the settlement; when did this happen, and why? v) What individual find at the site caught your attention the most and why?
Reading: S.P. Morris, J.K. Papadopoulos, et al. “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project”
Make sure there is some sort of argument (a thesis) while answering ALL questions clearly in YOUR OWN WORDS and USING THE SOURCES PROVIDED.
Please have this done by Tuesday Afternoon and let me know if there are any questions.