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Dates in MLA are written in this order: day, month, and year.  \nThe introductory paragraph, or introduction, should set the context for the rest of  \nthe paper. Tell your readers why you are writing and why your topic is important.  \nIf your paper is long, you may want to write about how your paper is organized. This will help your readers follow your ideas.  \nAngeli 1  \nElizabeth L. Angeli  \nProfessor Patricia Sullivan  \nEnglish 624  \n12 February 2012  \nToward a Recovery of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks  \nWhile researching texts written about nineteenth century farming, I found a few authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming, particularly agricultural journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures. These authors often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by  \nPage numbers begin on page 1 and end on the final page. Type your name next to the page number in the header so that it  \nappears onevery page.  \nTitles are centered and written in 12-point, Times New Roman font. The title is not bolded, underlined, or italicized.  \nBlue boxes contain directions for writing and citing in MLA style.  \nGreen text boxes contain explanations of MLA style guidelines.  \ndiscussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was published (see Demaree, for example) . However, while these authors discuss journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures, I could not find much discussion about another important source of farming knowledge: farming handbooks. My goal in this paper is to bring this source into the agricultural literature discussion by connecting three  agricultural handbooks from the nineteenth century with nineteenth century agricultural history.  \nTo achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four main sections, two of which have sub-sections. In the first section, I provide an account of three important events in nineteenth century agricultural history: population and technological changes, the distribution of scientific new knowledge, and farming’s influence on education. In the  \nThe thesis statement is often (but not always) the last sentence of the introduction.  \nThe thesis is a clear position that you will support and develop throughout your paper. This sentence guides or controls your paper.  \nsecond section, I discuss three nineteenth century farming handbooks in  \nconnection with the important events described in the first section. 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