Final Paper
Ten Source Paper
Profiles in Courage

In 1957, Senator John F. Kennedy authored a book entitled Profiles in Courage. It won the Pulitzer Prize. For more information, please see the website at the John F. Kennedy Library. Your assignment is to write an original profile of courage.

The JFK Library is sponsoring a contest for high school students to write an original essay on a courageous elected official. Here are the requirements. If you are not interested in entering the contest you may deviate from the posted requirements but be sure to meet the source requirements of the paper as described below. EXTRA CREDIT will be given to those who enter the contest. If you are entering the contest, the rules state that I must read it before you submit it. Thus you must email me your essay by January 3 so I have enough time to read it and you can revise it.

Write a good essay. DO NOT merely string your sources together. You need to comment, interpret, and argue a point. Poor writing will earn a poor grade.

 

Sources:  You will need to have ten sources at a minimum including, 2 books, 4 printed articles from a newspaper, magazine or journal, and 1 non-Internet source (personal interview, tv, radio, youtube, video).  Encyclopedias (including Wikipedia) and dictionaries are not allowed as sources because they are considered by most professors as non-academic. Neither should you cite non-academically credible websites. ALL SOURCES MUST LIST AUTHORS. (Reputable organizations such as The American Lung Society are counted as being authors.) Dictionaries and quote pages/books are not sources.

ALL sources must be credible academic sources. For a description of what constitutes "credible," please use the CRAAP test.

20 citations MINIMUM.

 
  MLA, APA, Chicago 1, Chicago 2 and CSE styles will be used. This means you will write ONE paper, but you will change the format 5 times.

See Sample

 

                  Contest Entries - Due January 7 (Chicago 2) 
                          EXTRA CREDIT (up to 200 points)                
                
                Bibliography due Jan 12 (posted on web site)
                      Chicago 1 due Jan 19 (peer reviewed)
                          MLA, APA, Chicago 2, CSE due Jan 26

 
Point value = 1000 points
 
 

Peer Response Form

 
  2011 Round 2 essayists: Colin Elder  Will Reimann   Jack Li

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