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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born. In Rita Dove’s essay she writes about a summer of growing up during the Civil Rights movement. In this assignment you will write about the history you find on or around your day and month of birth. Essay #1: The Day I Was Born.
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • In Rita Dove’s essay she writes about a summer of growing up during the Civil Rights movement. • In this assignment you will write about the history you find on or around your day and month of birth.
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • To start You will use the ProQuest database through BTC Library or Angel to search. BTC Library for ProQuest Site @ Angel ProQuest Site @ http://www.btc.ctc.edu/library/index.asp http://angel.btc.ctc.edu/section/default.asp?id=BTC%5FW12%5F9122
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 1 Find one (1) article from one (1) of the following newspapers using the day and month of your birth: Seattle Post Intelligencer Wall Street Journal New York Times
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 2 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following popular magazines using the day and month of your birth: Time Newsweek
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 3 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following journals (periodicals) using the day and month of your birth: The Economist Smithsonian Nature
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 4 Read your three (3) articles. For example: a story from The Seattle PI about Mt Baker Forest.
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 5 Summarize each of the three (3)articles and their important to you to develop an outline organizing the order of each summary. Click here to open the Outline Template File
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Step 6 Draft your essay using your article summaries. Express a main idea, transitions to your summaries and provide APA references. Click here to open Student Example Essay
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born • Final Step Read over paper, make corrections, check APA citations in References at the end; upload to the Essay #1 Dropbox in Week 3. Yippee!!!