Roaring Twenties Compare/Contrast Essay with Source Citation
Total Point Value = 60 Points (see rubric for grading criteria)
Instructions: Please pick ONE and only one of the topics listed below. In 5-paragraph essay format,
compare and contrast the topic in the two eras (the 1920s and Modern Times). Please
make sure you have comparison(s) and contrast(s) in your essay (meaning you can have
two comparisons and one contrast or vice versa, at the very least).
Please make sure you follow the typical MLA format and that you do NOT use 1st/2nd person and contractions.
The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition
Jazz
Harlem Renaissance
Women of the 20s
Stock Market Bubble and Speculation
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Fundamentalism vs. Modernism
Source Citation:
Modern Times
Drug War
Popular Music
African-American Culture
Women of Modern America
Housing Market Bubble and Speculation
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Debate
Fundamentalism vs. Modernism (Liberalism?)
In addition, on this essay you must footnote and cite TWO outside sources. These
sources can be from the Internet, books, magazines, etc. Only ONE of your two
sources can be an encyclopedia article (including Wikipedia).
To assist you in citation, please feel free to use EasyBib.com which is linked from my website (under
helpful links). You simply type in the information and it will format the citation for you. Just copy and
paste from EasyBib.com into your Works Cited Page. Remember to alphabetize your two sources in the
Works Cited Page.
You should footnote and cite in MLA format. Footnotes should be parenthetical. Here is an example of
your textbook cited (as it would appear on the Works Cited Page at the end) in MLA format followed by
sample sentences from the textbook properly footnoted:
MLA Citation (appears on Works Cited Page at the end and alphabetized):
Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., ed. "A New Mass Culture." United States History: Reconstruction to the
Present. Ohio ed. Boston, MA: Prentice Hall, 2008. 343-51.
Direct Quotation (quotation marks required):
“The radio, or wireless, had been developed in the 1890s by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi”
(Lapsansky-Werner 345).
Paraphrase (no quotation marks):
Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in the 1890s (Lapsansky-Werner 345).
A sample (and elaborate) example of a full page can be found at: http://ollie.dcccd.edu/library/module5/sample.htm