English 101

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Research Paper Planning Assignment
Write the outline of your research paper below. The outline should begin with the title of your paper and your thesis statement. You should complete this assignment and submit it to your teacher when you finish the Develop an Outline lesson in this unit.
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Write a title for your paper that clearly states the topic.
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Write your thesis statement. Your thesis should state a fact about history and state your idea about the fact.
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Develop a formal outline for your paper. Use the Making Formal Outlines sheet as a guide for structuring your content. Your outline should demonstrate that you have completed adequate research and have a grasp of the content. Your ideas should be clearly organized in a logical manner.
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Traces of History in the Present

1. Introduction
2. Thesis statement: the goal of every historian is to collect insights on the realities of what happened in the past, history is created from traces of ideas, beliefs, and oral literature passed down from the past. The ideas and insights are woven together to create history.
3. Essay Map- history is not created from facts but from a string of ideas developed from different sources woven together to create history.
4. There are various sources of history, and these include primary and secondary sources.
5. Some of the sources of history are more reliable than others.

• Narratives are created from the historical and archaeological sites that are found in museums. By looking at the physical traces of what was there in the past, one can learn about the past and past events.

1. II) Body Paragraph 1

Topic sentence: History traces in the present lie in different places, and one can only recognize this if they are looking.

1. History is all about ideas and insights. As earlier stated, there are various historical sources, and these can be found in different places. An example of a place where history can be found is through oral traditions. An example is African history, where they pass down stories of their heritage orally from one generation to the next.
2. Archeology can also be used to create insights on things that happened in the past. An example in which archeology is used to create history is the archeological skulls used to explain man’s evolution (Bassi).

• Traces of history can also be found in ancient writings and tools which are found in museums.

1. History can also be found in the art that was created in the past. For example, the Louvre in Paris holds collections of art created during the French revolution, and from this art, a historian will have a rough idea of the events that happened during this period or what motivated the artist to paint the art (Blake and Jeniffer).

III) Body Paragraph 2

Topic sentence: consequently, traces of history can be found in the music of the past or oral traditions. For example, some songs were sung by African Americans that narrate their struggle for equality and freedom from slavery.

1. These history traces could include oral traditions such as poetry (Groeneveld). An example of such poetry is the work of Hughes and other poets during the Harlem renaissance.
2. There is also the use of oral traditions such as the use of music

III) Body paragraph 3

1. Traces of history can also be a source of history. Linguistics is the study of languages and how they have changed over time. This can be used to trace back history through the origin of different languages. An example of this is whereby different languages can be traced from one single language.

Body paragraph 4

1. Traces of history are also found in ethnography. Ethnography is the study of present-day institutions. Ethnography also involves learning the crafts and artistic skills of the people (Groeneveld). Through studying current technology, one can learn about the past through dating the skill back to its source. For example, when one studies modern-day technology, there is a possibility of going back to the early inventions and the industrial revolution.

Body paragraph 5

Conclusion

1. Restating of the thesis statement
2. Summary of the key issues

Works Cited

Bassi, Karen. Traces of the Past. Classics between History and Archeology

Blake, Sarah, and Jennifer Dyer. “Objects and Things in Classical Literature.” New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World. Brill, 2020. 172-182.

Groeneveld, Emma. Sources of History. World history 2017. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1048/sources-of-history/