Primary Source Analysis #1
Due: Mon Feb 9, 2026 11:59pmDue: Mon Feb 9, 2026 11:59pm
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For this assignment, you must bring together two to three different primary sources from Canvas. No outside sources are permitted. While you may incorporate a secondary source or two (say, Fatima El-Tayeb’s essay or Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s “Culture of Defeat”) in order to contextualize your analysis of the historical documents, the body of your work must focus heavily on the two to three primary sources.
For this primary source analysis, you must examine historical documents from before February 9 (the deadline of submission) not after. So imagine, in other words, writing a primary source analysis that examines Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein, for example, since that is something that we have already covered in class.
In approximately 750 words, you must identify in exhaustive detail the creators of the primary sources, the reasons for their creation, a brief summary of their contents, an analysis of their implications, and an argument that connects the readings together. How do these documents work together in comparison or juxtaposed to each other? What do they reveal?
We will be grading you according to this rubric Download rubric
, which is listed under files and pasted below. Please submit your document as a Microsoft Word file to your individual discussion section’s Canvas page.
RUBRIC (out of 100 points)
Argument and Main Theme (20)
* Does your paper relate to the main themes we have discussed in lecture and discussion section? If so, what are the main themes and where are they located in your analysis?
*Is your argument easily identifiable?
* Is your argument persuasive?
Identification and Analysis of the Texts (25)
* Do you identify the author of each text (and quote that you use) in your essay?
* Does your evidence match your argument?
*Do you cite directly from the source?
* Are you able to weave different examples from your text(s) together to show what they have in common?
* Do you interrogate and explain any quotes that you use in your paper?
* Are you able to identify moments when the author is employing literary devices such as sarcasm, irony, understatement, repetition, or analogy? Are you able to articulate why the author chose to write that way?
Historical Knowledge and Contextualization (20)
* Does your analysis illustrate that you are knowledgeable about the time period in which the document was written?
* Does your paper successfully relate the primary source to the historical context in which it was created?
* Does your analysis identify/propose who the original audience was for this text?
Prose (20)
* Is your writing clear and comprehensible?
* Does your writing use proper grammar and spelling?
* Do you use active voice instead of passive voice?
* Is your prose formal instead of too casual, informal, or colloquial?
* Is your writing persuasive? Some of the best texts are persuasive not only because they are well-argued but also because theyre beautifully written. Strive for beautiful, simple, elegant prose.
Organization (10)
* Does the structure of your paper make sense?
* Are your paragraphs all proper lengths (not too long, not too short)?|
* Does each paragraph have an obvious signpost at the beginning of it to alert the reader as to what your paragraph is about?
* Does each paragraph easily flow from one to the next?
Citation (5)
* Do you properly cite your sources? Is it possible for a complete stranger to grab your paper and find the original quotation that you mentioned using only your paper as a guide?
VERY IMPORTANT: I ALREADFY CHAT GPT AN ESSAY WITH QUOTES FROM MY PRIMARY SOURCES AND CITATIONS. I JUST NEED YOU TO REWRITE THE ENTIRE THING. MAKE IT GOOD. MAKE IT BETTER. MAKE IT HUMAN
Requirements: 750
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