Wikipedia Analysis Paper
Conduct a scholarly analysis of the content and sourcing of the article by comparing it against your own research on the subject using primary and secondary sources (LIBRARY SOURCES ONLY). Each student will conduct a kind of scholarly compare/contrast of their information versus that contained within the Wikipedia article and identify and assess any issues within it, ultimately suggesting changes to be made in order to improve the scholarly quality of the article. the topic is (Liberian exodus) and the link for the article is below.
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Below find some initial research resources for you to begin your paper:
1) Liberian Exodus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberian_exodus )
Burin, Eric. “Rethinking Northern White Support for the African Colonization Movement: The Pennsylvania Colonization Society as an Agent of Emancipation.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 127, no. 2. April 2003. ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093619 )
DeLombard, Jeannine. “Sisters, Servants, or Saviors? National Baptist Women Missionaries in Liberia in the 1920s.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 24, no. 2. 1991. ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/219793 )
Dorsey, Bruce. “A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States.” Journal of Social History 34, no. 1. 2000.
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Your grade on the Wikipedia analysis paper will be based on:
Minimum of 5 changes suggested for Wikipedia content
1,000 minimum word count
Minimum of 5 sources used, which must include at least 2 primary & 2
secondary sources (LIBRARY ONLY)
Proper Chicago Manual of Style formatted, footnoted bibliographical citations & captions (see Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide and Image Citation Guide on our Canvas page)
Grammatical/spelling mistakes
Quality of overall narrative structure/organization