Research Guides: Lamont: Writing Assignments

Assignments

Class Assignments

The Causal Argument

Choose your event, trend, situation, or phenomenon
Search initial sources to narrow/focus your topic
Find THREE different kinds of credible sources that:
- Explain why something happens/happened the way it does/did
- Explain why it is important to understand the explanation(s) for this 'effect'.
Save & Cite your articles

The Rhetorical Analysis

From the speech you chose, you'll use library resources to complete your analysis in the paper

Choose your speech
Use library databases to find articles that answer these questions:
- What evidence is offered to support this claim?
- What is the speech's cultural/historical context?
Save & Cite your articles

Library Assignment

This guided worksheet will help you with your research. Remember to save your work!

Gale Topic Finder

Gale Topic Finder
Not sure on a topic? Having trouble refining your ideas? Use the tiles in Gale's Topic Finder to refine or find a topic to start with! Articles will be shown on the right side of your screen that you can start with that align with these topics and ideas.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session."
William Faulkner
"Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature."
Mary Fisher
"1992 Republican National Convention Address."
Jesse Jackson
"1984 Democratic National Convention Address."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Presidential Inaugural Address."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream."
Ronald Reagan
"The Space Shuttle 'Challenger' Tragedy Address."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation."
Margaret Sanger
"The Children's Era."