Chapter 18

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Instructions

Question:

The time frame is roughly circa 1400 to 1500: The Material and Trading Worlds, Circa 1400.

Write an essay concerning "Why and how did European settlers in South and North America strive for self-government, and how successful were they in achieving their goals?" You are strongly encouraged to illustrate your answer with pictures or photographs.

This assignment aims to help you practice the following skills essential to your success in college and your professional life beyond school. In this assignment, you will:

• Access and collect needed information from appropriate primary and secondary sources.
• Synthesize information to develop informed views.
• Compose a well-organized, clear, concise, report to expand your knowledge on the historic sites you have chosen.

SKILLS:

This assignment aims to help you practice the following skills essential to your success in college and your professional life beyond school. In this assignment, you will:

• Access and collect needed information from appropriate primary and secondary sources.
• Synthesize information to develop informed views.
• Compose a well-organized, concise report to expand your knowledge of your chosen historic sites.

KNOWLEDGE:

This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:

• Issues facing the history of our present world.
• Scholarly research formats for documenting in-text sources and creating reference pages (i.e., bibliographies).

KNOWLEDGE:

This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:

• Issues facing the history of our present world.
• Scholarly research formats for documenting in-text sources and creating reference pages (i.e., bibliographies).
• You should write an introduction paragraph or half a page presenting the topic asked.
• You should write about one paragraph to two pages on the question asked, which should be about three total pages.
• You should write a conclusion paragraph or half a page

• Your paper should be at least three pages or about a thousand words long, not counting your sources.
• Your answers must be supplemented with additional information from at least two other sources besides your textbook. Your textbook does not count as a source.
• You cannot use encyclopedias or online encyclopedias as sources. Online journals and articles are acceptable if you provide your references, preferably in Chicago style or any other consistent format. You can use our APSU Online Library portal to start your research. In any case, you absolutely need to provide the author's name, the article or book title, the publication name, and the year of publication.
• You have only until the due date to submit your assignment.

Please remember that you need to answer in one essay format.

GRADING:

This report is worth a maximum of 50 points.

You will not be able to submit any report after the due date and will not receive any credit. Use your word processor to type your answer. Save your file as a Doc (Word) file or RTF before uploading it to this area. The Assignment Report will be graded on the following criteria:

• The Question is addressed and well-developed.
• The introduction is relevant and interesting, and the conclusion is specific and emphatic.
• At least three major points or paragraphs are identified and developed in your own words, not copied (no plagiarized phrases or sentences).
• The information given is thorough.
• The information is clear and easily understood. The material is sequenced logically, and good transitions are employed.
• The information follows a logical sequence.
• The assignment is readable with few distracting spelling or grammatical errors.
• The sentences and paragraphs are clear and well-developed.
• At least two supplementary sources are identified, and their information is developed.

Grading will be as follows:

Presentation/Format: 10

Introduction: 10

First Major Point/Paragraph: 20

Second Major Point/Paragraph: 20

Third Major Point /Paragraph: 20

Conclusion: 10

References at least two: 10

Assignment Total: 100

Originality score - synthesize your information without exceeding 20 on originality.

Presentation/Format: 10

Introduction: 10

First Major Point/Paragraph: 20

Second Major Point/Paragraph: 20

Third Major Point /Paragraph: 20

Conclusion: 10

References at least two: 10

Assignment Total: 100

Originality score - synthesize your information without exceeding 20 on originality.