History of Hip Hop

Write a research paper of the history of Hip Hop DANCE.  You may use Internet sources, and live interview as well as book references. References in MLA format must be attached at the end and are in addition to your pages.  Include information regarding the history and social components of the dance form.  Please also describe specific movements from the dance and any other information your research uncovers.  I encourage you to reference material we have learned in class in order to support your research. Please remember your topic must focus primarily on Hip Hop Dance.  While it will most often be appropriate to include discussion of the musical evolution that drove the development of hip hop dance, you must center your paper on the DANCE FORM and not the music!

    For examples of MLA Reference Format:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Tips for writing your paper:  You may also look at owl.english.purdue.edu for more helpful information on writing academic research papers.

A.Create an Outline for Yourself to help you organize your paper
B.Write an Introductory Paragraph letting me know what topic you have chosen and what aspects of the topic you intend to discuss in the paper
C.Write a draft of your paper being careful to organize it in a methodical fashion
D.Proofread and refine your paper.  Please use Grammarly to help you edit your paper with correct sentence structure, grammar and spelling. 
E. Write a closing paragraph summarizing the important points of your research
F. Provide references at the end in MLA Format: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Here are some examples of references in MLA format:

Text Box: Dean, Cornelia. “Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet.” The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com, 1 June 2006, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016.
Gowdy, John. “Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability.” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.
An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, performances by Al Gore and Billy West, Paramount, 2006.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. Springer, 2005.