History 4793 - Senior Seminar

Work Piece #1

Having read the sample research paper on Woodrow Wilson that was assigned for today's class, write type-written analysis of the sample paper in which you discuss/analyze the following:

  1. State the thesis of the paper and what your grounds are for arguing this.

  2. Identify, describe, and analyze the purpose of any perspectives of other historians that you find in the paper.

  3. Describe the evidence used in the paper and make an argument as to why you think it sufficient or insufficient.

  4. Classify the article in terms of the approach to history (social, cultural, political, etc.) it adopts and explain your classification.