So I have been in the library for a few hours and realized why I am not a history major. History essays are really hard for me to write. I feel like in other subjects you have to understand a concept pretty well to write an essay but for history you have to do 3 times as much research. I am still trying to formulate my thesis statement. I am thinking of doing something about either Vesalius that I referenced in my last blog post or maybe I will talk about the resurgence of popularity of the texts of the ancient Greek philosopher and physician Galen. Or maybe both of them. I am still figuring everything out. Hopefully I will get it all figured out soon to post a thesis statement up here and get my draft done for tomorrow. Otherwise it will be a late night. Any insight would be much appreciated.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Frustration
So I have been in the library for a few hours and realized why I am not a history major. History essays are really hard for me to write. I feel like in other subjects you have to understand a concept pretty well to write an essay but for history you have to do 3 times as much research. I am still trying to formulate my thesis statement. I am thinking of doing something about either Vesalius that I referenced in my last blog post or maybe I will talk about the resurgence of popularity of the texts of the ancient Greek philosopher and physician Galen. Or maybe both of them. I am still figuring everything out. Hopefully I will get it all figured out soon to post a thesis statement up here and get my draft done for tomorrow. Otherwise it will be a late night. Any insight would be much appreciated.
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Remember this is a short paper, only a few pages. You don't have room to address too many things. I thought that your blog on Vesalius was cool. What if you did something simple like:
ReplyDelete"the freedom fostered by the Renaissance made it possible for Vesalius to investigate anatomy and pathology in a way that was impossible in the more controlled dark ages"?
You would have three points to prove 1 per page and it is really focused
Wow alicia. I really like that Idea. I just got home from FHE and saw this and am starting again so I hope that you don't mind if I use that or maybe a slightly modified version.
ReplyDeleteHEY QUESTION - Do you think that I have to write the whole essay about printing specifically or could I go the direction of the Scientific Revolution and use the printing press as only one of my key points that contributed to that?
ReplyDeleteI think you'd be fine to talk about the Scientific Revolution, and it would definitely be good to talk about printing within that context, but printing is already such a huge topic, I'd say don't give yourself too much more than that to cover. We've got so few pages as it is for this paper.
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