1. Purpose: to give students experience analyzing primary or original sources; thus you need not use other sources.



2. Content (i.e., the answer to, "What are you looking for?")

The paper should convey an ability to carry out critical thinking (the components of which are research, analysis, quality of hypothesis, and presentation of material) and to write at a level appropriate for a college sophomore.

Once you have read through the documents and think you understand their meaning and significance, construct a theme or thesis appropriate to them which can be answered in five pages. This could be based on one or more of the questions in section C of the docpacs or something original. Note that some questions make for a more interesting and lively discussion, while others make for a more scholarly paper. In your papers, avoid addressing "The document packet." Rather, focus on the problem you are taking on. Focus on analysis rather than description.

Pick the document packet whose subject is of the greatest interest to you. The docpac paper is due at the beginning of the class where we will discuss it.