This document provides formatting requirements for a document analysis assignment, including using Times New Roman 12pt font, double spacing, 1" margins, and proper citations and footnotes. The analysis must be a minimum of two pages and address questions about the type of document, its author and intended audience, important points, the purpose for writing, and two things it reveals about life at the time.

1. Your analysis must be in Chicago style:
Font
– Times New Roman 12pt, double spaced, 1” margins all
around, and properly
formatted citations, footnotes and work cited page.
Your analysis
must be a minimum of two pages
of typed text not including work cited page. (points will be
deducted if format requirements are not met)
A. What type of document did you read? (or was this a primary
or secondary source)
B. When was the document written?
C. Who is the author(s) of the article and what is their title?
(provide some background information on author and cite your
source)
D. For what audience was the document written? (place article
in its proper context, if you say the article was written for
students
–
more than likely you are wrong. Think critically about who the
audience is)
E. Document information:
i. List three things the author said that you think are important
(footnote and cite the source)
ii. Why do you think this document was written?
iii. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was
written? (Quote from the document, then footnote and cite the
source)
iv. Discuss two things the document tells you about life in the
United States at the time it was written. (do not just provide a
list of things, you must explain them
–
points will be deducted if you simply provide a list)
v. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the

2. document:
G. See schedule for document analysis due dates