A resume is simply a condensation of a longer work designed to focus upon certain aspects or points raised. You should draft a resume of about 500 words, which is approximately the number that can be placed on one side of a note book sheet of paper using 10 point font and single spacing. You may use both sides of a single sheet of paper, but you may not exceed one sheet of paper. Repeat, do not submit more than one sheet of paper. Your work as with all other written work submitted, cannot be in pencil. If you do not use a keyboard, write in ink. Place a complete heading in the upper right hand corner of your paper in which you state your last and first names (in that order), the course and section number (do not omit this) and the date you are submitting the paper, not the date on which you composed it. Place the complete title of the article you have read on the first line of your paper. Complete the following 5 points, beginning each with the appropriate Roman Numeral.

I. Major Thesis: A thesis is an argument or proposition advanced. Every work of history has a thesis. Here is a very simple one offered as an example: "Babe Ruth was the greatest ballplayer that every lived." Note: a thesis is never simply a theme, and it is never a question. Your must state the thesis in no more than one sentence.<.p>

II. Minor Theses: From time to time, but only on rare occasion, a writer presents more than one thesis. If this occurs, present any minor theses exactly as you do the major thesis - i.e., in a single sentence.

III. Support: Here you will summarize - IN YOUR OWN WORDS - the proof, or the argument that the author uses to support his theses. You should avoid simple paraphrasing of the author's words. This will prove to be, in most cases, the longest portion of your resume.

IV. Correspondence with the text book: How does the treatment of the subject in the text book compare with the treatment of the subject in the article? Does the text book agree, overall, with the thesis the author of the article presented? It is here that you have an opportunity to discern some of the nuances that are involved in the writing of history, or at least to demonstrate that you are reading the text book carefully. Take advantage of the opportunity. Do not simply say that the article went into greater detail than the text did.

V. Evaluation/Comments. This section is optional