Course
ASI120
Semester
Spring
Instructor's Name
Susan Trollinger
Year
2021
Writing Process
I began this historiography with a list of five possible topics to choose from related to the Reconstruction Era. From there, I chose the topic of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction because I had never known much about the seventeenth President of the United States. I began to conduct research, navigating online databases and scanning the Roesch library for possible sources. I compiled a list of fifteen sources from which I chose a final eight. Summarizing each source and taking note of recurring themes, I composed an annotated bibliography. This served as the first draft of my historiography. I transformed this annotated bibliography into a historiographical essay by organizing the sources according to common themes and forming a thesis. The essay was completed with the addition of comparison between sources and the formulation of supporting argument for the thesis.
Recommended Citation
Kutter, Travis A.
(2022)
"Andrew Johnson's Impact on Reconstruction,"
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/lxl/vol8/iss1/1