HIST 301W - History Writing Workshop

1. Demonstrate the writing process, including preparing, editing, and revising multiple drafts.
2. Draw reasonable conclusions from primary sources.
3. Compare historical arguments found in secondary sources.
4. Appropriately employ summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation.
5. Apply the Chicago-style citation system consistently.
6. Identify your own voice as a narrator.
7. Select primary sources from physical and/or digital archives.
8. Demonstrate organized collection and use of primary and secondary sources.
9. Construct an historical argument, derived from primary and secondary sources.
10. Collaborate in constructive peer editing and review.
11. Present historical findings through oral projects, including teaching projects.

1. Complete a variety of reading and writing tasks that incorporate subject-matter knowledge.
2. Adjust their writing for different audiences, showing awareness of expectations for academic writing in general and adhering to discipline-specific conventions when appropriate.
3. Demonstrate critical thinking and logical reasoning, including strategies common in  a discipline, in the development and organization of ideas in written texts.
4. Take into account multiple perspectives and key disciplinary concepts when presenting their ideas in writing.
5. Revise their writing in response to feedback in order to improve idea development, clarity, coherence, and correctness.