Sample Mla Research Paper - "Toward A Recovery Of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks"

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While researching texts written about nineteenth century farming, I found a few
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day, month,
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and year.
font. The
authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming,
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bolded,
particularly agricultural journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures. These authors
underlined,
or
The
italicized.
often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by
introduc-
tory
paragraph,
discussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was
or introduc-
The thesis
tion, should
statement
published (see Demaree, for example). However, while these authors discuss journals,
set the
usually is
context for
the last
the rest of
newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures, I could not find much discussion about another
sentence of
the paper.
the
Tell your
introduc-
important source of farming knowledge: farming handbooks. My goal in this paper is to
readers
tion.
why you
are writing
bring this source into the agricultural literature discussion by connecting three
The thesis
and why
is a clear
your topic
position
is
agricultural handbooks from the nineteenth century with nineteenth century agricultural
that you
important.
will support
and
history.
develop
throughout
To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four main sections, two of
your paper.
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sentence
If your
which have sub-sections. In the first section, I provide an account of three important
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paper is
controls
long, you
events in nineteenth century agricultural history: population and technological changes,
your paper.
may want
to write
about how
the distribution of scientific new knowledge, and farming’s influence on education. In the
your paper
is
second section, I discuss three nineteenth century farming handbooks in connection with
organized.
This will
help your
the important events described in the first section. I end my paper with a third section that
readers
follow your
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