Instructions for the Major 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. 2

What Do the Words Analysis and Analyze Mean?. 2

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

3

Should I type my name on my paper?
With this analysis, please do because it will save me some time.

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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 a minimum of 3 primaries that match the topic you want to answer. Tip: Choose the topic and primaries at the same time.

·         The primaries you choose must be from at least two Units.

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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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How do I know the topic to write on?

For the Major Analysis, you use the form below this link. You fill in the form to propose your topic and your primaries and submit to the Turnitin for the proposal.

I will review the proposal and get back with you. The sooner you propose it, the quicker the response. If I approve the proposal, I will enter 10 points for the proposal. That will make the folder for submitting the analysis itself visible to you.

You want to plan this before you submit the proposal. The planning will pay off. The Good Habits for Evidence grade for the proposal is determined by whether you followed the Good Habits for Evidence in your writing. In other words, if you get the 20 Good Habits for Evidence points for your analysis, you also get the 10 Good Habits for Evidence points for your proposal

 

 

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

Use the phrases listed in the file for your proposal. For this primary, the short phrase listed in that file is

Letters - Pullman, 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