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Programme in Classical
Studies
History 3131
Paul Swarney
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416 736 5123 pswarney@yorku.ca
Essay 2
Due: Thursday 25 September
Length: 2 double spaced typewritten pages
Topic: The significance of the least important of five events in
Roman History
Explain carefully the significance
of the event that you selected as the least important of five events in
your first essay. You may wish to consider
such issues as how the event contributes to your understanding of issues in
Roman History such as social structure, economy, or other topics that are of
interest to you.
You are expected to pay careful
attention to establishing a clearly defined position (thesis) in your essay and
to making sure that your paragraphs are quite directly related to this
position. A helpful hint is that your
thesis may, in fact, be the very last item that you will define in drafts of
your essay even though you will place it at the beginning of your final
version.
Another Ahelpful hint@ is to make sure that each of your
paragraphs is constructed around a single, well defined topic.
Evaluation:
20% of this term=s essay mark
To this
second essay!
1. Title:
Have you included your name and the
name of the course at the head of the first page of your essay?
Have you formulated a title for your
essay that clearly relates to the main topic of your paper?
2.
Introduction:
Does your first paragraph begin with a clear statement about the position which you have taken in your essay?
Do the remaining sentences in your
first paragraph let the reader know what to expect in the rest of your essay?
Do these sentences let the reader
know how you have argued your position in the rest of your essay?
3.
Exposition:
Does each of your subsequent
paragraphs focus clearly on a topic mentioned in your introduction?
Does each sentence in this paragraph
focus on the topic of the paragraph?
Are the sentences in each paragraph
made to relate to each other or are they merely a series of unrelated
observations?
Is each sentence a complete
sentence?
4.
Conclusion:
Does your conclusion follow from the
evidence on which you based your exposition?
Is it what you advertised in your
introduction?
5.
Syntax and style:
Are you certain that you have
noticed the difference between singulars and plurals?
Are most of your verbs active?
Have you used your dictionary, even
for looking up ordinary words?
6.
Special reminder:
This essay is about an event selected by you not about the “truth” in Roman History. Please make sure that you use 12pt. type throughout your essay.
(Be kind and respectful to the aging
faculties of Faculty!)
Do not separate your subjects from
their verbs with commas!