1,000–1,200 words, not including footnotes, bibliography, and title page.You will summarize and critically assess a chapter from The Enlightenment World, eds. Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf, and Iain McCalman (London: Routledge, 2004), in your own words. Choose one of the many chapters in this book, not including the section introductions. You are encouraged to assess a chapter that will be relevant to your historiographical essay, but this is not mandatory. The Enlightenment World is available as an e-book through the AU Library.

Your essay must:

Identify and explain the author’s topic and thesis, or main argument.

Identify the author and describe his or her qualifications to write on this subject. The book’s list of contributors provides useful information. Make sure you cite any other sources you refer to.

Provide some brief background information on the topic in order to establish a context for your discussion. This will probably require some additional research; again, make sure to cite your sources.

Describe the sources or types of sources that the author used and how he or she has used them, taking into account the questions he or she brings to the sources and the theories or interpretations he or she uses in analyzing the sources.

Evaluate the persuasiveness of the author’s argument.

Include a bibliography of all sources you used for the report. Please let me know if you need anything from the course

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