Research Project assignment

Student’s Name

World History, Andrews

Research Paper

Date

Original Title for yourResearch Write-Up

This semester, you have the opportunity to dive more deeply into a specific question that interests you. You will do this by conducting a small original research study that builds upon one of the thematic areas we have discussed in class. As a way of supporting one another, you’ll choose thematic areas as teams, but each student must conduct his or her own study, write up individual results and make an individual presentation. Your write-up will be about 6 double-spaced pages in length+ Bibliography and contain the following named sections: 

ü  Introduction

ü  Review of the Literature

ü  Method

ü  Results

ü  Analysis

ü  Conclusions / Directions for Future Research

ü  Bibliography

Examples of Format for Bibliographic Entries

Aurelius, Marcus. “Meditations.” In Heritage of Western Civilizations.Ed. John L. Beatty and Oliver A. Johnson. Vol 1. 8^thed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1995. 212-220.

Corbett, Bob. The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803: An Historical Essay in Four Parts. http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/revolution/revolution1.htm (accessed 1/18/2012)