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Scholarly Article Review 2

Scholarly Article Review 2

Q Instructions For this assignment you will access the JSTOR database through the university library and browse the contents of the Western Historical Quarterly to find an article consisting of original research about a topic related to Western history from after 1900. The article needs to be at least fifteen pages in length and cannot be either a book review or a review of the literature: it needs to be a work of original research. After choosing an article that meets the above requirements, you will write a two-page summary and analysis of the article. The review should lay out the author's central thesis and the main points the author uses to support the thesis. The paper should also identify the author's main primary source evidence and explain how that primary source evidence is used. Finally, the paper should explain what new light the author shines on the topic and what future avenues of research might shine further light on the topic. The paper should be two full pages of original text in length and should be written in Chicago format, including 12-pt Times New Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides. The paper will be assessed according to the following rubric: A - The paper is two full pages of original text in length and is free of grammatical errors and errors in formatting. The article reviewed is a work of original research from the Western Historical Quarterly about a topic related to Western history after 1900; the article reviewed is no fewer than fifteen pages in length. The paper accurately identifies the article's central thesis, main points, and the precise nature of its primary source evidence. The paper explains how the article shines new light on the topic and identifies future directions for further research into the topic. B - The paper is two full pages of original text in length and might have some minor grammatical errors and errors in formatting. The article reviewed is a work of original research from the Western Historical Quarterly about a topic related to Western history after 1900; the article reviewed is no fewer than fifteen pages in length. The paper accurately identifies the article's central thesis, and some of its main points, and the general nature of its primary source evidence. The paper touches on how the article shines new light on the topic and suggests some future directions for further research into the topic. C- The paper is nearly two full pages of original text in length or might have several grammatical errors or errors in formatting. The article reviewed is a work of original research from the Western Historical Quarterly about a topic related to Western history after 1900 (or an article about such a topic from a scholarly journal other than the WHQ); the article reviewed is no fewer than fifteen pages in length. The paper attempts to identify the article's central thesis, and some of its main points. It includes some general observations about the article's primary sources. The paper might neglect paper to explain what new light the article shines on the topic or to suggest some future directions for further research into the topic. D - The paper is less than two full pages of original text in length and might have numerous grammatical errors or errors in formatting. The article reviewed might not be from the Western Historical Quarterly (or other scholarly journal) or it might be a topic related to Western history before 1900 or it might be less than fifteen pages in length or it might be a book review or review of the literature. The paper might fail to identify the article's central thesis or its main points or it might not address the article's primary source evidence. The paper might neglect paper to explain what new light the article shines on the topic and to suggest some future directions for further research into the topic. F - The paper is a page or less of original text in length and might have numerous grammatical errors or errors in formatting some of which might obstruct the paper's intended meaning. The article reviewed might not be from the Western Historical Quarterly (or other scholarly journal) or it might be a topic related to Western history before 1900 or it might be less than fifteen pages in length or it might be a book review or review of the literature. The paper might fail to identify the article's central thesis or its main points or it might not address the article's primary source evidence. The paper might neglect paper to explain what new light the article shines on the topic and to suggest some future directions for further research into the topic

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This assignment will review an article authored by Okada Yasuo titled "The Japanese Image of the American West." The article has 19 pages, and I have sourced it from The Western Historical Quarterly 19, no. 2 (1988): 141–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/968392. The author, Okada, is trying to give the audience a survey on the Japanese image of the American West. He argues that although Western America did not attract the Japanese people much, they have a specific image of the western frontier. The author's central thesis is to clarify the Japanese image with the hope of making it better than previous scholars' articles on the same by taking it closer to what he refers to as the 'The World Image of the American Frontier.