Hi, I have written the paper and gotten notes back from my TA and need you to please fix the paper.

Directions:

Read Boccaccio’s description of the plague and other of the readings on the Black Death. Think of how those writing about the plague describe its course and development.

attached is the reading of Boccaccio as well as the other readings on the Black Death. It starts from page 95 titled as “the Decameron preface to the ladies” which talks about the plague in Florence written by Boccaccio and continues all the way to page 106 with the writings by Jean de Venette and Agnolo di Tura.

Please write 3-4 pages

Try not to just repeat the prompt as your thesis statement. For example: for the Dante prompt, some of the questions Teo asks you are “what are the most salient political, cultural, and theological elements of the book? What does it tell you about western European culture around 1300?”

Your thesis statement should not be “there are many salient political, cultural, and theological elements that tell us many things about western European culture around 1300 in Dante’s Inferno,” as I can already understand that from the prompt! I want to see your specific answer to these questions and why they are important/relevant, both in your thesis statement and your claims throughout.

The easiest and most rewarding way of integrating your perspective throughout the body of your writing is through your topic sentences and analysis of sources. Teo has given you some great avenues to achieve this with the prompts from the final. You are historians, and your opinion on these sources (backed up with evidence) matter! Here are some guiding questions for analysis: what does this piece of evidence implicitly illustrate that supports my main argument? What lurks beneath the surface of my evidence that I want to draw out? How can I explain why it is so important to understand the point I am making?

NOTES ON PAPER:

“Here, you mostly just restate the information from Boccaccio, and you do not use any quotes. Your section on comparison to COVID-19 is a bit better, but it still lacks structure and an argument. Please make a more argumentative and evidence-based essay.”

my paper is in the documents along with the source.

please fix everything that is stated and all other errors you see that do not work with the paper and delete the comments and highlights when you are done.

thank you.