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Stephen Kramer Professor Mellinger Contemporary American History 12/05/2021 Capstone Essay Contemporary American History (HIST-107-V01) is a 15-week virtual course taught by Professor Caroline Mellinger, Associate Professor of History and Real Estate at Harrisburg Area Community College. This is not your “tradition” college level course, as there are no multiple- choice quizzes or exams, instead Professor Mellinger requires all students to submit essays based on the topics which are being studied. Each essay is based on 2-4 topics generally, based on American history from WWI to present, which require a minimum of four pages and a maximum of ten, in standard college format, in 2-week intervals. Students are expected to use at least six different sources, one being The American Yawp, Volume II , a secondary source, which is information from a book, article, or other source that is not direct, or first-hand evidence, and at least two of the remaining six sources must be primary sources, which is a document, first-hand account, or direct evidence related to a subject. This is meant to show that students have been fully engaged in a variety of sources made available to them throughout each learning module on D2L. As a student is preparing to write their essay, they should thoroughly review the “Historical Article Assignment Instructions” and the “Article Questions” provided by Professor Mellinger on the courses D2L page. These documents are key to completing the assignment, as
they provide vital information related to format and questions related to the topic needed to complete the essay. After reviewing these documents, my suggestions would be to decide on which topics to base the essay on, making sure to have picked the amount required to complete the essay. Then creating an outline of the questions for organizational purposes. From my personal experiences when working from my outline, it made researching each topic and the questions relating to them much easier, as I became quite flustered when seeing other questions from the various topics, but each student is different, so this ultimately won’t work for everyone. Creating an outline also helps with time management, as that comes hand-in- hand with organization, and I believe that if a student does not manage their time appropriately, they may find it difficult to complete the assignments. After ensuring that all questions have been answered comprehensively from each topic and the collaborating sources have been cited corrected, while keeping track of the number of different sources being cited. The next step would be to create a new Word document that will be used to compromise of all the responses to the questions that were answered in the outline that had been previously created, tying them into the required essay format, then adding the sources list at the end of the assignment. Thus, completing the “Article Cycle” as Professor Mellinger refers to. A current event that is directly related to the topics and materials that we’ve studied in this course this semester, are the inflation rate the United States is currently experiencing under President Biden’s Administration. Many major news organizations have published stories reporting a 39-year high inflation rate. This type of inflation rate was last seen in 1982 according to an article published by The Wallstreet Journal titled U.S. Inflation Hit a 39-Year High in November ( Guilford, 2021 ). I believe that the past can very much inform the present, and the
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