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For this first draft, focus on getting all of your research written down

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For this first draft, focus on getting all of your research written down. This is Step 1 of the Three Steps of History - gathering as much evidence as possible.

Purpose:  

A first complete draft is a vital step in creating a strong research paper. You must allow yourself to simply get all of your information down first, before you start Step 2, analyzing what that evidence is telling you, and Step 3, communicating your findings honestly to yourself and others. Consider the first complete draft like being a sculpture who must gather a mass of clay before they start forming that clay into a statue, or a carpenter who must gather all of their lumber and nails before they begin building a desk.      

Also cite your research precisely in Chicago manual of Style and in endnotes. Instructions are below. 

Remember, in Creating the Paper:

• Just follow the three steps of the History Process. Spend most of your time on step 1, gathering evidence. The more evidence you gather, the easier it will be to do step 2, analysis, and step 3, which is communication, in this case, writing your paper.
• Introduction: write your introduction and conclusion last! It is difficult if not impossible to know what your overall findings will be until you have completed your journey.
• First paragraphs of your paper: The emerging need for your livelihood. Professions emerge out of societal needs. Explore the need for your profession in Modern US History. What was happening in US History, and where in the US was it happening, that created the need for your profession? What were the economic, environmental, social, geographical, labor, immigration, technological, gender roles, and other conditions that formed the evolution of your dream profession? For each major cause, create a new paragraph.
• Next paragraphs: What made the growth of your livelihood possible? Your first paragraphs cover why society needed your profession. These next paragraphs will cover how your livelihood began to grow. How did education, population, technology, transportation, urbanization, and other factors play a role? Just as important, did a person’s own class, ethnicity, and/or gender play a role? Did a person’s identity help or hinder their chances in pursuing this livelihood.