Start your research with a working thesis

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Start your research with a working thesis.

For instance, your perspective might be: The Sixties was an era when people struggled for freedom and fought against injustice.

Or, on the other hand, your perspective might be: The Sixties was an era when people tried to change the world, but failed, causing much misery and

disappointment.

This is just a working thesis. You might change it a little; you might completely change it. Its purpose is to give you a focus for your research.

Start with your textbook. You might also want to review parts of the film,

The Sixties. Consult the following website www.gilderlehrmen.org and any others you may discover on your own. Don’t try to write down everything; focus on what is interesting to you and helps you develop a persuasive thesis.

Use the index card format that follows to take notes and record the sources

of your information.

If it’s a book, be sure to record the title, author, city of publication, publisher, and date of publication. If it’s a website, record the name of the site, the title

of the article, the author of the article, and the date when you visited the site.

You may use your own paper, but follow the format of the organizer on the next page to outline your ideas. Discuss your prewriting with your

instructor,

Name: Date:

oe ee

The Civil Rights Source(s):

Movement

—

The Politics of Source(s):

Protest/The

Counterculture

Outline: Review your notes. Consider your working thesis. Do you want to revise it?

Write your thesis below and consider what you want to say in each

paragraph. Write a topic sentence for each paragraph in the organizer below.

Make sure each topic sentence relates to your thesis.

 

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The Civil Rights

 

Movement

The Vietnam

War

 

The Politics of

 

Protest/The

Counterculture

 

Part Two: After reviewing your prewriting with your instructor, write a first draft of

your essay. Do not write your first draft until you have discussed your pre-

writing with your instructor.

 

Part Three: After reviewing your first draft with your instructor, write a second draft of

your essay.