Women’s Rights Movement of the 1960’s

Making a Case: Historical Argument
Based on your reading of Chapter 8 in Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History, your consideration of feedback received on your Week One Assignment, and your on-going research, compose a paper that includes the following:
• A one-paragraph preliminary introduction to your topic. Refine the explanation of historical and/or historiographical context provided for your Week One Assignment in accordance with recommendations from your instructor and your expanded understanding of your topic.
• A preliminary analytic thesis statement.
• An outline or synopsis of how you will make your case, citing at least five specific primary source documents and/or scholarly sources that will help you support your argument.
• An expanded annotated bibliography, totaling eight sources. Include approved work as well as revisions to the sources from the Week One Assignment, and find additional sources you plan to use for your project. You must include at least two primary sources, along with relevant scholarly articles, chapters, or books. Each entry in the annotated bibliography should be three to five sentences in length and summarizes the contents of each source and its relevance to the topic.
• Include the title of the source, author, publisher, place, and date of publication in APA style.
• Provide a title page formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Chapter 8, this is the basics of the chapter in short.
Making a case: An argument in three parts.
1. Reading your reader. First off you need to know who your audience is as you speak to your professor differently than your friends. Consider that when your writing.
2. Writing the equation: Question + Thesis+ Motive = Argument. You know that asking questions is an important part of any assignment so you need to make sure your asking good questions. Thesis, is your answer to your question, simple put. Motive, is a reason why the thesis matters.
3. Arguing about time: arguments are about time in some fashion, and in the case of a motive, you’re drawing a conclusion from your thesis that pertains to the past, the present, or both.