This paper explores 20th Century American Women Activists. For your second formal history paper, select an individual or organization featured in Units 3, 4, or 5, who took civic action to fix one of the specific social, economic, or political problems featured in the units.

20th Century American Women Activists.

Due December 12th For your second formal history paper, select an individual or organization featured in Units 3, 4, or 5, who took civic action to fix one of the specific social, economic, or political problems featured in the units. Clearly identify and describe the single problem or issue around which they organized and acted. Then summarize, discuss, and compare the strategies and ideas they developed to fix the problem. What goals did they achieve? How were their views and work affected by their “social location”—their race, class, gender identity, ethnicity? What impact did they have on the course of history? What historical lesson/s about civic engagement do they offer us?

20th Century American Women Activists.

For paper 2, select a social problem & Individual or groups covered in Units 3, 4, 5– week 10-16. You should draw primarily from assigned course materials. Use both primary sources and secondary scholarship to support your discussion and assertions. You are encouraged to draw on relevant materials from the Women and Social Movements in the U.S., Database linked in the course E-Reader, and use assigned readings as a starting point. For general biographical information about individuals, reference the authoritative biographical dictionary, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volumes 1-5 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University).

20th Century American Women Activists.

Physical copies of each volume available in our library. Please avoid non-scholarly web-based sources such as history.com. **** Writing Guidelines & Expectations: AWAI papers should follow the conventions of good academic writing! Your AWAI papers should have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Start your paper with an overarching topic sentence that immediately identifies the main focus of your paper—the social problem and activists you will feature. In your introduction, you should provide adequate historical context to orient the reader. (ie. some dates, terms, and a sense of what changed over time on this topic).

20th Century American Women Activists.

You should close the introduction with a thesis statement–a supportable generalization/big assertion about what the bulk of the evidence examined about your chosen civic activist/s proves about how they worked to solve the social problem. Organize the rest of your response into 7-10 well-developed paragraphs each containing a topic sentence that identifies your main idea in that paragraph, followed by supporting evidence from the course materials, and your own explanations of that material. Offer your own thoughts and evaluation of this evidence.

20th Century American Women Activists.

Remember that your supporting body paragraphs are supposed support what you asserted in your thesis statement in the introduction, while also adequately describing and contextualizing the work of these civic activists. If these groups or individuals worked in collaboration with, or were in conflict with others, that should be explained. Your conclusion should explain how you’ve proven your main argument and offer some reflection on the historical significance and impact of the civic activists you wrote about. What lesson/s about the historic role of women’s civic and social activism in American history will you take with you after studying this topic?

20th Century American Women Activists.

Format, Length, Stylistic, and Citation Requirements The Basics: Your paper should be 5-7 pages, double-spaced, 12 Pt. Times New Roman Font, standard black ink, standard 1” margins. Your prose should be crisp, clear, grammatical, and properly punctuated. Avoid unnecessary adjectives, adverbs, or flowery, fancy language. Be sure your sentences have a subject, verb, and object. Avoid passive voice, where its not clear who did or said what. Practice “economy of language.” Alert! You are writing a social science paper in the academic discipline of history. You should be writing in the past tense.

20th Century American Women Activists.

Keep your language as formal as possible. MOSTLY, avoid the use of first person singular, “I” and “My” statements. Avoid touch-feely, self-dismissing language. For example, “I feel like …” or “It might just be my opinion, but…” are two commonly bad ways to start a sentence in a formal academic paper. Don’t undercut the force of your assertions by admitting your ideas are based primarily on feelings or opinions rather than evaluation of evidence. Instead, make the historical subjects you are writing about THE subjects of your paper and your sentences. Similarly, make the evidence the basis of your assertions and statements. https://youtu.be/jNeZzoUYJUM

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