- 12 Mar, 2021
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Analysis
Essay Prompt:
Analyze and compare between Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations including women, laws, and literature. Support your argument with evidence from primary and secondary sources.
Guideline:
• Make sure to read and follow the prompt above closely.
• Make sure to develop a thesis statement that fully answers the prompt above and which you are able to support with evidence (a thesis which is not too general and not too narrow) – THESIS MUST BE UNDERLINED
• Make sure that each paragraph is related to your thesis, includes a topic sentence which indicates the topic of the paragraph, and stays on topic.
• Make sure to develop and make clear your own ideas, analysis, and reasoning in your essay to support your thesis.
• Makes sure to spend time carefully considering your sources for their meaning and relevance to your thesis. Primary sources need to be analyzed and interpreted in relation to your thesis. The ideas in secondary sources need to be analyzed critically and explained in relation to your thesis.
• Make sure to set your topics in the context of historical cause and effect and change and continuity.
• Your writing should be at the college level, with minimal grammatical errors.
• You should format consistently, using MLA style, 4 – 5 pages plus the bibliography page.
• Make sure to embed your source of citation within the texts plus providing work cited page at the end.
SOURCE MUST COME FROM “A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES” VOL.1 TO 1600