Writing Assignment 2 (45 points)

Format: 12 point font,

Directions: you will need to read the specified primary source (link will be provided) and the correlating chapter from the Give Me Liberty textbook. Once you have completed the readings, you will complete 3 well thought out paragraphs to demonstrate your understanding of the material. I will provide more specific directions below.

Read:Excerpt from The Populist Platform (1892)LINK TO DOCUMENT

PARAGRAPH 1 (two hundred words minimum)will only be about The Populist Platform document

Sentence 1: Start by giving the author, title of document, and when the document was written in order to clearly cite your source of information.(3 points)Example: In The Populist Platform, written in 1892, Populists argue/discuss/explain...

Next: State the main point that the author is making (consider audience, purpose--to persuade, to inform, to criticize...). Then describe the supporting points the author provides. Is the author convincing in his main point--why/why not.(10 points)

Select andincorporate a direct quote (word for word from the document). Remember to cite the quote by putting it in quotation marks, with the page number after it in parenthesis, like this: (page 244). Incorporate this into this paragraph--do not attach it at the end of the paragraph. Please limit this quote to a brief sentence. Discuss why you picked the quote and its meaning in relation to the document and topic as a whole.(2 points)

Read: Give Me Liberty, Chapter 17

PARAGRAPH 2 (two hundred words minimum)will only be about Give Me Liberty, chapter 17

Describe the information that this chapter provides about Populism. Discuss the growing tension between the working/producing class and the upper class, the centralization of economic power that accompanied industrialization, the Farmers' Revolt, various strikes, Populist politics, etc. (15 points)

PARAGRAPH 3 (two hundred words minimum)will be about BOTH The Populist Platform AND ch. 17

Sentence 1: make a statement, such as: The Populist Platform compliments the information discussed in chapter 17 of Give Me Liberty in these ways... (it doesn't have to be this exactly but be sure you are introducing both documents to show the reader (me) that you are going to be tying both sources together in this third paragraph). (3 points)

Next: Use the section of chapter 17 that pertains to Populism and describe how it relates to the The Populist Platform document. Compare each "point by point", by selecting specific areas and by showing how each source discusses that issue. Discuss at least 3 different main points.(10 points)

What did you learn from these readings regarding populism and do you see a form of populism playing out in today's politics? (2 points)