Please ask if you have any questions.
Reminder: there are
videos to answer different kinds of questions in the Good Habits for Evidence
folder in Getting Started, including how to use endnotes.
Before
You Start to Read and Write, Be Sure You Are Going in the Right Direction
These
are the links available from these Instructions
What
Is a Comparison in This History Class?.
A
Simple Method of Citing You May Use in This Course
Before You Start to Read and Write, Be Sure You Are Going in the Right Direction
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Examine how your instructor will grade this writing assignment. Click here for the basic rubric used to grade this writing (although the points vary with the assignment). (This opens in a New Window.) Notice that whether you follow all of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence determines your grade on the content and that if you don’t follow all of them, you do not earn any of the points for the Good Habits for Evidence part of this assignment. |
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This is a comparison for a history class. Don’t assume a prior comparison for an English class is what is needed since the goal is reading and writing that help you learn history. Click here for what does your history teacher means by the word comparison. (This link stays on this webpage.) |
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Is there a required, preformatted file that I must write in for this written
assignment? Tips: · Do not add anything to the file that is not in the file. · Each comparison has its own file that you must use. It has pre-set margins (with the left one being wider because I write there in my feedback to you) and pre-set font and font size. |
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Shouldn’t I type my name on my paper? · From Turnitin, your instructor can tell who wrote the paper without your name. · With your name, other students who know you wrote the assignment when they do the Peer Review assignment. |
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Do I have to cite a page number for
each fact and quotation? Disciplines vary, but history requires citations for both: · A quotation · A fact - You may not make statements of fact without a citation to a specific page from the required pages. (Don’t assume your version of common knowledge matches the textbook.) Click here for the simple system you can use to cite any of the listed types of sources that you want to use with these written assignments in Turnitin. (This link stays on this webpage.) |
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Do I have to use endnotes for citation? Tips: There is a video at Good Habits for Evidence that covers these basics. Endnotes are done with software automatically: 1. By placing your cursor immediately after the fact you want to cite 2. By clicking—if you are using Microsoft Word—References and then on Insert Endnote 3. By typing whatever your instructor requires. |
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If I’m not a great thinking about history, are there any
thinking tips? Click here for tips about the 5 Ws including a link to 9 Steps to Successful Reading FOR Evidence and Writing WITH Evidence (This link stays on this webpage.) If you want to try the 5 Ws—highly recommended—and include it in your file, click here for one you can fill in for each of the two possible topics. (This link stays on this webpage.) |
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What’s the maximum length? 330 words for your writing, but the endnotes may continue to the next page. If you include the 5 Ws chart, follow the directions in the file and place the chart on the first page and your writing itself on the second page. If endnotes continue to the next page that is fine. |
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You propose your own topic by completing a form in the folder for Planning the Major Comparison and then submitting it throughTurnitin |
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Once you get feedback from me, you can begin writing. (The earlier you submit the proposal, the earlier the feedback.) |
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Work in a consistent way. For some of you this link will help: click here for 9 Steps to Successful Reading FOR Evidence and Writing WITH Evidence |
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When Beginning to Submit becomes available on the date in the Course Schedule, go submit your file. Use Turnitin’s feedback to correct errors and strengthen your analysis. |
Sometimes
it is clearest start with what a comparison is not. A comparison in this class is:
This
is a history class and the goal to help you learn history. One of the hardest
things for students to understand about history is that it what was true at the
beginning of a time period can be amazingly different at the end of
it—sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. History changes! If it
didn’t, humans could never have a consequence on the present and future. What
makes history change is something worth noticing if you want to survive your present and, perhaps what is more
important, if you want to try to maintain what is good in your present.
What
do you do when you write a comparison for this history class? You:
1.
Choose
one of the listed topics asking you to compare 2 things.
2.
Read
exactly the required pages in the textbook for that topic.
3.
Read
or watch everything required.
4.
Work
until you figure it out stand it well enough that you can identify 3 to 5 facts
that you can compare about the things so that you could teach another person
what changed and why.
In this course, when using a quotation or a fact, your
endnote states a specific page from
the required textbook (or primaries or other documents listed as resources to
use for the topic you chose. If a primary source has no page numbers, click on
File and the Print Preview to get an estimate of the page you want to cite.
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What
You Want to Cite |
Example
of What You Want to Cite |
Example
of What You Place in the Endnote |
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A page from one of the required primary sources that has a
phrase at the end in parenthesis or in the proposal you submit for the Major
Comparison |
To cite the primary 1660 to 1732 Laws about Slaves and Indentured
Servants (Laws-Servitude) |
Laws-Servitude, p. 1 |
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A page from our textbook |
To cite page 42 from our textbook for a fact |
Essentials, p. 42 |
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A specific definition from one of the resources provided |
Definition
servitude slavery indentured servant vassal subject and Related Terms
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Definition-indentured servant |
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A video listed as a source for the topic |
To cite a video, cite its full name Caution:
Observe carefully. If you say something I cannot
recognize, I will ask for the specific location of what you say. |
The Changing Chesapeake:
What happened to Anthony Johnson and to Bacon’s Rebellion |
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Copy of a page from Tindall and Shi listed as a source for
the topic |
To cite Tindall and Shi 9th Edition on How Bacon’s
Rebellion Caused a Shift from Planters’ Paying for Indentured Servants
to Enslaving Africans (9th
Edition-Page 40) |
9th Edition-Page 40 |
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Data to help observer changes in number of Africans |
To cite the 99.98% being white laborers in 1625 that I
provide from Ayers (the prior textbook used by the History Department) |
Ayers, American
Passages, page 35 cited in the Instructions for the Major Comparison |