Assignment (with modified language, to clarify):

Select one of your previous Document Analysis papers and expand it with additional research. Write a five or six-page essay based on your analysis of two different types of primary source material (including your original primary source), and at least two scholarly articles or books.

Alternatively, if you don't want to work with any of your previous documents for whatever reason, you may select new ones.

By Nov. 14 at the latest (for real this time), you should submit a tentative bibliography and copies of your primary sources (or one-page excerpts). On each primary source, mark an example of a passage that you might use, and jot down a few words indicating how you might use it. This component of the assignment will count for 25% (or 5% of your grade for the course, if you are using the original grading rubric).

The final draft of the paper (5-6 pages of text, plus a page of endnotes and a bibliography page) is due Dec. 11. This component of the assignment will count for 75% (or 15% of your grade for the course if you are using the original grading rubric).

Note: By different "types" of source material, I don't mean two newspaper articles (or two letters, or two photographs, etc.). Your sources should include a newspaper article and a letter, or a photograph and a government document, for instance.