1. 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.

2. 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
Angel ProQuest

3. Essay #1: The Day I Was Born
Step 1 Find one (1) article from one (1) of the following newspapers using the day and month of your birth:
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wall Street Journal
New York Times

4. 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:
Time
Newsweek

5. 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:
The Economist
Smithsonian
Nature

6. Essay #1: The Day I Was Born
Step 4 Read your three (3) articles.
For example: a story from The Seattle PI about Mt Baker Forest.

7. Essay #1: The Day I Was Born
Step 5 Summarize each of the three (3)articles and their important to you to develop an outline organizing the order of each summary.
Click here to open the Outline Template File

8. 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

9. 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!!!