Instructions for the Introductory Analysis of Primaries

Please ask if you have any questions.

Before You Start to Read and Write, Be Sure You Are Going in the Right Direction. 1

These are the links available from these Instructions. 3

What Do the Words Analysis and Analyze Mean?. 3

A Simple Method of Citing You May Use in This Course. 3

Primaries That You May Use and How to Determine the Textbook Pages You Should Use. 3

 

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 rubric used to grade this writing. (This opens in a New Window.) You can use this rubric in two ways:

·         To decide what makes a good grade by looking at the columns for a “C” or “B” or “A” analysis. Notice that following all 5 Good Habits for Evidence and writing an accurate summary of the 2 primaries can not only make a decent grade but earn full points for its Good Habits for Evidence grade. You just have to try to learn some history and be accurate.

·         To realize that not following all of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence results not only a “D” or an “F” for the content, but means 0 points for its Good Habits for Evidence grade

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Is there a required, preformatted file that I must write in for this written assignment?
Yes. It is in this folder.

Tips:

·         Each analysis has its own file that you must use.

·         Do not add anything to the file that is not in the file.

·         Read the instructions in the file and then delete the instructions before you submit to Turnitin

·         Do not change any of the settings. It has:

o   Pre-set margins (with the left one being wider because I write there in my feedback to you)

o   Pre-set font and font size

o   Pre-set to be double-spaced

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Shouldn’t I type my name on my paper?
No.

·         From Turnitin, your instructor can tell who wrote the paper without your name.

·         With your name, other students 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?
Yes.

 

Disciplines vary, but history requires citations for both:

·         A quotation – You may not use the exact words of the author without both citation and correct use of the required pair of quotation marks (“”).

·         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?
Yes, endnotes only. Your endnotes will begin after the last word in your paper.

Tips: Here are basics. Endnotes are done with software—such as Microsoft Word—automatically. If you have Microsoft Word, try this step by step and you will see how it works.

1.       Place your cursor immediately after the fact you want to cite in your paper

2.       Click on the tab References at the top of the screen.

3.       Click on the words Insert Endnote
Microsoft words then inserts superscript number (such as 1 or I ) where you clicked and takes your cursor to the bottom of the page and creates that a) same superscript number and b) a space for you to type the exact page reference.

4.       If, for example, you were citing page 421 of the textbook, you would type
Essentials, p. 421

5.       Then you’d move in your paper to where you want the next citation and repeat steps 1 through 4.

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What’s the maximum length? 330 words for your writing, but the endnotes may continue to the next page.

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How many primaries are required and which ones can I choose from?  You must:

·         Choose 2 primaries that match the question you want to answer. Tip: Choose the question and primaries at the same time.

·         The 2 primaries must be from different chapters, with 1 primary from an early period (such as Chapter 17) and 1 from a later period (such as Chapter 22).

Click here for the list of primaries

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What pages from the textbook must I use with these primaries? The list of primaries includes the chapter number in the left column. You locate appropriate background information within that chapter. Your index can help you locate pages within that chapter.

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What are the possible questions to choose from?

·         Using your two primaries and your textbook, analyze the differences and similarities in foreign policy in the two periods you have chosen.

·         Using your two primaries and your textbook, analyze the differences and similarities about racism in the two periods you have chosen.

·         Using your two primaries and your textbook, analyze the differences and similarities about how government deals with racism in the two periods you have chosen.

·         Using your two primaries and your textbook, analyze the differences and similarities in how national or state government deals with major problems.

If you have another question that you would like to propose using 2 of these primaries, then email me. If I agree, I will make it a possible question that any of you may choose.

 

 

These are the links available from these Instructions

What Do the Words Analysis and Analyze Mean?

To quote the Merriam Webster Dictionary Online:

·         Analyze: “to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis”

·         Analysis: “separation of a whole into its component parts”

·         Component: “one of the parts of something (such as a system or mixture): an important piece of something

To boil this down: what’s “important” in the parts of what you have chosen to examine.

A Simple Method of Citing You May Use in This Course

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. You do not write comments in your endnotes; use them only for citing the textbook or a primary.

If a primary source has multiple pages but no page numbers, click on File and the Print Preview to get an estimate of the page you want to cite.

What You Want to Cite

Example of What You Want to Cite

Example of What You Place in the Endnote

A page from one of the  primary sources

To cite a fact in your own words or a fact in the exact words of the author (a quotation) from page 2 of the primary with the name Letters Regarding the Pullman Strike of 1894

Letters Regarding the Pullman Strike of 1894, p. 2

A page from our textbook

To cite a fact in your own words or a fact in the exact words of the author (a quotation) on page 421 from our textbook

Essentials, p. 421

Primaries That You May Use and How to Determine the Textbook Pages You Should Use

The table lists:

·         In the left column, the chapter title. You will find content about the era of that primary in that chapter. Only use content from the chapter.

·         In the right column, the name of the primary. You use that name in your citation. See an example above.

 

Chapter in Your Textbook

Primaries You May Use – and the Name to Use When Citing

Chapter 16: Big Business and Organized Labor, Chapter 1860–1900

·         Letters Regarding the Pullman Strike of 1894

·         George Pullman Response to the Striking Workers

Chapter 17. The South and the West Transformed, 1865–1900

·         1895: B.T. Washington 

·         1896: Plessy-Harlan

·         1898: I.W. Barnett-Letter to McKinley

·         1899: I.W. Barnett-Lynch Law

·         1900: Senator Tillman

Chapter 18. Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900

·         Public Disease and Public Health-Collection of excerpts from a book produced by George Waring

·         Skyscrapers and the Otis Safety Elevator - a Picture of Business

·         Cliff Dwellers - a Painting of Tenements

Chapter 19. Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913

·         ALBERT J Beveridge - March of the Flag

·         Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League

Chapter 20. The Progressive Era, 1890–1920

·         Pictures of John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite Valley and of a Giant Redwood

·         John Muir, Man's Place in the Universe, 1916

·         Theodore Roosevelt, selection from speech to the Conference of Governors at the White House, 1909

Chapter 21. America and the Great War, 1914–1920

·         Army Recruitment Poster, Destroy the Mad Brute, circa 1917

·         The United States Congress, Sedition Act, 1918

Chapter 22. A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929

·         Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926

·         Ku Klux Klan Parade, Washington, 1926