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From the book : Patterns of World History Volume 1 to 1600
Authors:Von Sivers, Desnoyes & Stow
Analyze the rise of civilization in the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India, and Hebrew and Iranian civilization in the period 3500 BCE to 1000CE. Briefly, explain their histories, contributions and why the civilization declined.
Essay Format:
Your essay must be at least 2000 (minimum) words in length. Do not use direct quotes. Paraphrase and cite your sources. The easiest way to cite sources is to use parenthetical citations (MLA) that include the author's last name and page number (Mayer 199).
Your first paragraph must contain a series of arguments that you intend to historically prove in the text of your essay. Never pose rhetorical questions in your essay. Rhetorical questions are cheap literary devices that make your writing style non-assertive and give the reader the impression that you are not in control of your essay or the material. Immediately give the reader your overall argument, and then, in succeeding sentences of your first paragraph list supporting arguments in chronological order. The supporting arguments should be chronological in order and build on each other. Your last paragraph is the conclusion and here you restate your original thesis, succinctly summarize what you covered in the text of your paper and conclude. In your conclusion do not editorialize or introduce anything new that you did not cover in the body of the essay.
The topic sentences of your paragraphs must do more than simply describe what the paragraph is about, they must also state why the paragraph is important to the overall argument of your essay. In other words, the topic sentence summarizes the paragraph, but also links it back to one of the supporting arguments that you listed in your introductory paragraph. You must have dates or at least periodize in almost every paragraph. Paragraphs should be one-third to one-half page in length. Finally, your essay must have a conclusion that restates your original argument in light of the data and facts that were discussed in the text of your essay. A paragraph is at least four sentences long