Prop.: “There is a moral seriousness among many veterans of the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan that puts to shame the carelessness and evasions of American life. And in the United States, such seriousness must still struggle to be heard. After all, as of 2006, according to one Army surgeon, America was a place where no one with a lawn service knew or wrote to anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan…”
About Writing
Clear and well-phrased writing is the most important ingredient in this assignment. In most instances, we don’t really know what we think until we attempt the serious work of “getting it right” on the page. And such work can succeed only through rewriting, or revision. There are no short-cuts, in other words, to concise, persuasive, and polished prose. It is, then, unacceptable to turn in a first unrevised draft, just as it is unacceptable to pretend that your writing is effective simply because you think it is “close enough.”
*Please employ the Endnote citation system, otherwise known as “The Chicago Method.” For more on this consult Google, or Mary Lynn Rampolla’s A Pocket Guide to Writing in History,
especially Chs. 1, 4, 6 & 7 (4th, 5th, 6th ed.). Several copies of the Rampolla handbook are on Library Reserve under the instructor’s name.
In order to orient yourself and your paper, it is important to recognize that you are writing to an imaginary Reader (not the instructor). Such a person is bright, interested in what you have to say, but knows next to nothing of your subject. Thus, you must strive for clear paragraphs, sentences, and supporting examples. Your role, then, is as an intermediary between your Reader on one side and your Sources on the other. Standing thus in the middle, you should understand that both you and your Reader are best served by constructing your sentences, well and often, around such phrases as, for example: “America’s veterans,” according to Peter Marin, “ possess a hard-won wisdom…;” Now more than ever, writes Ross Caputi, America’s wars are…, and so forth.
Evaluation
The essays will be judged – and graded – equally for “Form” and for “Substance…”
“Form” concerns the quality of word choice, spelling, the quality of sentences and paragraphs, the narrative progression from one paragraph to another, the degree of proper evidentiary support for any and all general statements, and appropriate citations.
“Substance,” on the other hand, concerns the employment of Sources in support of the paper’s themes/questions/arguments, paragraph by paragraph, and the way such paragraphs, contribute to a logically compelling essay. Successful papers, moreover, don’t flee from other views, especially those that run counter to your paper’s emphasis. Such “counterevidence” should be acknowledged, if only in a couple of paragraphs. This can strengthen your effort.
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