PROMPT: This week’s prompt asks you to summarize your thoughts about your topic so far: What is your idea for your topic, and what do you like about it? How do you see it meeting the requirements of the assignment?
pick a topic that focuses on anything from the time period 1250-1750 whose geographical focus is outside of the US
databases used to find a potential topic while looking through journals/ articles:
Cultural and Social History: com/loi/rfcs20” class=”external” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfcs20 (Links to an external site.)
Journal of Social History: com/jsh/issue-archive” class=”external” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>https://academic.oup.com/jsh/issue-archive (Links to an external site.)
then with 140 words explain everything said in the first line (the prompt)
topic requirements
TIME PERIOD IS IMPORTANT
Assignment Instructions, with Resources
The first step to writing an excellent MMW 13 research paper is finding a good topic,
one that does the following:
● Interests and engages you in a deep way,
● Is appropriate for academic research, meaning that your questions can be
answered with empirical, historically-grounded evidence
● Is situated in the time period covered by MMW 13 (1200-1750 CE),
● Raises significant, “level 3” issues that have not become settled fact in
scholarship (levels 1-2) and are not theoretical, hypothetical, “should” or “would”
questions that involved speculation or forecasting (level 4)
● Can be narrowed to a thesis that can be fully, logically, and convincingly
supported by research and analysis of scholarly sources in 8-10 pages.
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