What
Is the Rubric Used to Measure Your Content and Your Following the 5 Good Habits
for Evidence
What
Is the Safe Subject and What Are Your Other Choices?
What’s
the Order of What You Do If You Are Writing on the Safe Subject?
Requirements
for Teaching the Best Truth You Can Understand and Using Sources That Help You
Catch On
Requirements
for Reading, Length, and Language in Your Analysis
Requirements
for Shortened Citations for Your Analysis—Example for a Primary and for the
Textbook
Resources Available as Links on This Webpage
What Is an Analysis in This History Class?
If You Want to Know Why We Use These Shortened
Citations
Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation
Humiliation
Click here for more on the rubric and how to use it as a grader or as someone graded. (This opens in a New Window.) You can also look at the link immediately under Evidence Quiz 1 in Evidence Requirements.
This is an Analysis of Primaries for a history class. Don’t assume a prior writing assignment 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 analysis. (This link stays on this webpage.)
Because some students had difficulties in looking at all of the primaries provided for this course and deciding what to do, this course includes a Plan for a Safe Subject. It has 5 pre-chosen primaries, with two from Unit 1 and three from Unit 2—but you only use parts of these primaries. Using these primaries means you are looking at how things occurred from about the 1620s to the 1820s.
If you want to look at the list of all of the primaries in US History I, please ask and I will make the list available to you. We can talk about an equivalent Subject and primaries to use. If we can work that out, I will provide a general Plan file for that and answer any questions you have.
Look at the things below this webpage in this folder and follow them in order to the bottom.
1.
Below this webpage, download the Plan file by
clicking on:
File to Download to Submit the Plan for
the Safe Subject.
2.
Look at the folder Required Primaries and read the primary documents.
3.
Follow the instructions in the Plan file.
Tip: When you are
completing this file, you are also planning exactly how you will write this analysis. You need to think this
through.
4.
If you do not know how to use Turnitin, look at
instructions by clicking on:
Turnitin Instructions on How Students
Submit Papers Using Turnitin in Blackboard
5.
After you complete the file, submit the file to Turnitin
by clicking on:
Plan for the Analysis of Primaries (Turnitin Assignment Tool to Submit Your Plan)
6.
When your instructor emails feedback about your
Plan, she either enters full points or 1.11 for your Plan grade and states
instructions you need to do.
7.
If your instructor asks you do something, do
that so she can enter full points.
Tip: Check to be sure
that you see that Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of the folder.
8.
Download the preformatted file for your Analysis
by clicking on:
Preformatted File to Download and
Complete for the Analysis of Primaries
9.
Type your Analysis and its citations in the
preformatted file, proof it and the citations carefully, and submit your file
to Turnitin by clicking on:
Analysis of Primaries (Turnitin Assignment Tool to Submit Your
Actual Analysis)
Tip: Look
at Turnitin’s feedback on language and more important for your history grade on
similarity—on plagiarism. If your text is marked as similar, notice what
Turnitin says is the source. If you should have placed “” around words or other
problems, fix it. In your course, you can fix and resubmit until the last day
the assignment is open.
10. Make sure you see your digital receipt. That confirms that you submitted correctly. You do not need to print it a
Tip Also make a snippet so you have proof you submitted successfully if needed.
You must use and cite in your writing:
a)
Each of the primaries listed in Safe Subject for
the Plan
Caution: an Analysis without the
primaries discussed and cited in the paper results in a mark in the “F” column
of the rubric.
b) The pages of the Essentials text that you identified for each primary and listed in your Plan.
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Reading |
The primaries listed in the Safe Subject for the Plan. The textbook pages that you identify for each of the primaries using the instructions in the file for the Safe Subject for the Plan. |
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Heading |
Use only the heading shown in the file – your name and date and the exact subject you are writing about. |
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Length |
330 words maximum – Less is better. It cannot be more than one (1) printed page. |
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Format |
You used a pre-formatted file provided at the bottom of the Analysis of Primaries folder. Do not change the font size (10 points), the font (Calibri), the margins (1” on the left and .5” on the right) and the paragraph setting (double space). The pre-formatted file is an .rtf file (Rich Text Format). You may work in that file or you may save it to another file type that Turnitin accepts. Turnitin accepts these types of files: · A Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) · An Adobe file (.pdf) · An Open Office document (.odt) |
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Punctuation |
Make sure it is accurate, especially if you are quoting something. Keep it simple by using this Brain Trick (goes to the bottom of this webpage). |
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General clarity |
Read and plan carefully, being sure to record the exact page numbers as you work. Type in a word processor and run spell and grammar checking. Print it and proof it. (To proof = to compare side by side paper and source to be sure page numbers and facts and names and quotations and everything is correct.) |
Do not use lengthy citation statements within parentheses () as is done with MLA. You are trying to teach history accurately to someone like yourself. You are not collecting research and quoting from it. You all have the same sources and so you do not want to get a lot of words get between you and your fellow students. Do these things for this writing assignment:
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What You Want to
Cite |
Example of How You
Would Cite |
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If the fact is from a primary for the Safe Subject for the Plan |
Example: the primary “George Pullman's Response to the
Striking Workers” has beside it the short phrase Pullman. |
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If the fact is from the textbook, the Essentials edition |
If your fact is from page 680 of the textbook, then immediately after your fact you’d write: (Essentials, p. 680) |
The file for Safe Subject that you submit lists the primaries and lists beside each one a short phrase that you use when citing that primary.
Resources Available as
Links on This Webpage
What Is an Analysis in This History Class?
Sometimes it is clearest start with
what an Analysis is not. An Analysis 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 an
Analysis for this history class? You:
1.
Use
the Safe Subject Plan or choose a subject you want to examine. (Ask if you want
to know about that.)
2.
Read
the primaries and the textbook pages about the time periods of those primaries.
3.
Work
until you figure the subject out well enough that could explain it—for
example—to your smart cousin who wants to understand.
If You Want to Know
Why We Use These Shortened Citations
The reasons are:
Offer: With the paper you submit through Turnitin, you may try endnotes. They are very powerful as a tool to try to figure things out. If you want to try that, contact me and I talk you through the mechanics of making them in Microsoft Word.
Brain Trick for
Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation
Click here for additional tips. (This tip is also available from the tutorial at the top of Evidence Requirements.)
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This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:
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