Students | John Cunningham

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Choose the kind of academic work in front of you.

Build a clear claim, organize paragraphs, use evidence, and revise for precision.

Develop a workable question, find and evaluate sources, and keep the project focused.

Consider origin, purpose, context, perspective, limits, and evidentiary value.

Use buns, meat, toppings, and seasoning to understand how a historical paragraph works.

Move from a broad interest to a focused question, sustained analysis, and a documented argument.

Explore argument, research questions, citations, historiography, evidence, and interpretation.

Long-form research

Support for moving from a broad interest to a focused research question, sustained analysis, and a carefully documented argument.

Define a question that is specific enough to investigate and substantial enough to support analysis.

Plan searches, track sources and notes, test the question against available evidence, and revise the scope when necessary.

Build the argument in stages, distinguish evidence from interpretation, and revise for structure as well as sentence-level clarity.

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