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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Contest Entries - Due January 7 (Chicago 2) |
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Point value = 1000 points |
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| 2011 Round 2 essayists:
Colin Elder
Will
Reimann
Jack Li Past Winning Essays |
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