Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• In Rita Dove’s essay she writes about a summer of growing up

during the Civil Rights movement.• In this assignment you will write about the history you find on

or around your day and month of birth.

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• To start You will use the ProQuest database through BTC

Library or Angel to search.

BTC Library for ProQuest Site @ Angel ProQuest Site @http://www.btc.ctc.edu/library/index.asp http://angel.btc.ctc.edu/section/

default.asp?id=BTC%5FW12%5F9122

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

• Step 1 Find one (1) article from one (1) of the following newspapers using the day and month of your birth:

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Step 2 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following

popular magazines using the day and month of your birth:

TimeNewsweek

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Step 3 Find one (1) article from the one (1) of the following

journals (periodicals) using the day and month of your birth:

Smithsonian Nature The Economist

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• Step 4 Read your three (3) articles.

For example: a story from The Seattle PI about Mt Baker Forest.

• Step 5 Summarize each of the three (3)articles and their important to you to develop an outline organizing the order of each summary.

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born

Click here to open the Outline Template File

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born

• Step 6 Draft your essay using your article summaries. Express a main idea, transitions to your summaries and provide APA references.

Click here to open Student Example Essay

Essay #1: The Day I Was Born• Final Step Read over paper, make corrections, check

APA citations in References at the end; upload to the Essay #1 Dropbox in Week 3. Yippee!!!