History Of `19th Cent Sports Paper

First Essay

In an essay of at least five and no more than eight pages, either accept or reject one (1) of the following theses:

Antebellum American prize fighting and antebellum American ball playing were fundamentally different social phenomenon.

American men living in cities before the Civil War engaged in sport primarily to define themselves, publicly, as manly.

Requirements and Guidelines:

Draw on assigned course readings in the construction of your answer. It will be evaluated based on quality of answer, quality of prose, and level of familiarity it demonstrates with assigned readings. Responses which demonstrate mastery of assigned readings and course themes will score well. Responses which demonstrate ignorance of assigned readings and course themes will score poorly, no matter what other merits they might possess. For this reason, you are strongly advised to limit your materials to those presented in the course.

Papers must be prepared in Times New Roman 12 pt., double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all four sides of the page. Papers must contain proper citation of all material taken from written sources and be free of errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation. You may use either MLA (parenthetical) or Chicago citation style, but you must properly credit all material taken from written sources. Papers must be uploaded to Carmen no later than 9 p.m. Thursday, October 27. Late submissions will be subject to grade reduction.

Be advised that Carmen’s dropbox is linked to turnitin.com, a document analysis tool capable of comparing student papers to the World Wide Web as well as to papers previously submitted to courses at this and other universities. Students whose papers, in the judgment of the instructor, “score” excessively on turnitin.com may be asked to revise and resubmit in order to receive credit for the assignment. Please be aware of university policies on plagiarism and academic misconduct, reviewable at

https://cstw.osu.edu/sites/cstw.osu.edu/files/Plagiarism.pdf and

https://cstw.osu.edu/writing-center/handouts/plagiarism

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