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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• In Rita Dove’s essay she writes about a summer of growing up
during the Civil Rights movement.• In this assignment you will write about the history you find on
or around your day and month of birth.
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• To start You will use the ProQuest database through BTC
Library or Angel to search.
BTC Library for ProQuest Site @ Angel ProQuest Site @http://www.btc.ctc.edu/library/index.asp http://angel.btc.ctc.edu/section/
default.asp?id=BTC%5FW12%5F9122
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
• Step 1 Find one (1) article from one (1) of the following newspapers using the day and month of your birth:
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Step 2 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following
popular magazines using the day and month of your birth:
TimeNewsweek
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Step 3 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following
journals (periodicals) using the day and month of your birth:
Smithsonian Nature The Economist
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• Step 4 Read your three (3) articles.
For example: a story from The Seattle PI about Mt Baker Forest.
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• Step 5 Summarize each of the three (3)articles and their important to you to develop an outline organizing the order of each summary.
Essay #1: The Day I Was Born
Click here to open the Outline Template File
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• Step 6 Draft your essay using your article summaries. Express a main idea, transitions to your summaries and provide APA references.
Click here to open Student Example Essay
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Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Final Step Read over paper, make corrections, check
APA citations in References at the end; upload to the Essay #1 Dropbox in Week 3. Yippee!!!