Examine how two pieces of scholarly work relate to a common topic and to each other

you will examine how two pieces of scholarly work relate to a common topic and to each other. This assignment provides you with another opportunity to practice critical reading, summarization and paraphrasing skills and to introduce the process of formulating a research question.

This assignment will:

1. give you exposure to two different scholarly approaches to a common topic.
2. teach you to think about how scholarship overlaps and how it differs in the treatment of a given topic.
3. teach you how to identify conceptual problems, articulate the significance of those problems and analyze how well an academic argument addresses them.
4. give you some practice in designing a research question.

The two article attached you should read are:

1. Dols, Michael W. “The Comparative Communal Responses to The Black Death in Muslim and Christian Societies.” Viator 5 (Jan. 1, 1974): 269-287. ProQuest. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

2. Stearns, Justin. “New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death.” History Compass 7.5 (2009): 1363-1375. Wiley Online Library. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

Write a four-five page analytical essay

Write an essay that explains and analyzes how the assigned sources relate to a common topic and to each other. You may organize your essay any way you feel is best, but your essay should contain the following elements:

1) Write an introduction.
a) Identify each source. Who are the authors, and what kind of sources are these?
b) Identify the common topic and provide any background information about the topic that is necessary to situate the articles in their historical context and to help the reader understand the content of the articles.

2) Summarize the argument contained in each of the two sources (maximum 200 words for each source). What problem does each author address, what is the significance of that problem, and how does each author address it with an argument?

3) Following the summaries, write an analysis demonstrating what these sources teach you about the topic and how they speak to each other.
a) What are the areas of commonality regarding the topic? Consider the author’s:
approach, problem, method, sources, thesis, claims, evidence and/or conclusions. Provide specific examples from the source and include marked printouts/photocopies for all citations.
b) What are the areas of difference regarding this topic? Consider the author’s: approach, problem, method, sources, thesis, claims, evidence and/or conclusions. Provide specific examples from the source and include marked printouts/photocopies for all citations.

4) Advance a research question. Restate the common problem that these two sources address and formulate a Level-3 research question to which these two sources provide different answers. What broader question do these sources address? How well do these sources address the question? What might you still need to know in order to answer this question? (Note: A Level-3 research question is an open-ended question to which an answer can be proposed based on scholarly research, but that cannot be answered definitively.)

Note: You may use quotations in this assignment, but use them judiciously and be sure to cite appropriately.

 

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