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Learning Outcome Essay Guidelines  General Education Learning Outcome Assignment Choose a person, event or movement and explain how your choice made an impact on the Civil Rights Movement

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Learning Outcome Essay Guidelines 
General Education Learning Outcome Assignment Choose a person, event or movement and explain how your choice made an impact on the Civil Rights Movement. 
1. Your paper should: ? Be typed, 12 font, double-spaced ? Be at least 850 and not much more than 1000 words (roughly 2 -3 pages) • Include a bibliography in APA style (at least two scholarly sources). • Include internal citations of quotes 
2. Your paper about a PERSON/GROUP/MOVEMENT should include: ? Motivations  - Why did they do what they did? What were the influences? Goals - What did he/she/they set out to achieve? Methods - How did he/she/they try to achieve those goals? Achievement /Success  - Did he/she/they achieve those goals? Why or why not? 
3. Your paper about an EVENT should include: ? Causes - What factors and previous events led to this key moment? ? Developments - What happened in this event? ? Effects - What were the immediate and long-term consequences of this event? 
4. Presentation of Subject Matter Be sure to be careful of: ? Mistakes in your writing (punctuation, grammar, spelling, capitalization, etc.) • Consistency - have a theme that runs throughout your paper; stick to it • Organization - your writing should be in logical paragraphs and sentences Details - be sure to back up any claims or statements with details that support them