How to Do the 2nd and 3rd Part Writing

What Is Different about the 1st Part and 2nd Part Writing?. 1

What Is Different about the 1st Part and 3rd Part Writing?. 1

What Do You Read?. 2

What Do You Write About and How Do You Do It?. 2

How Do You Cite Facts in Your Paper?. 3

Where Do You Submit the 2nd Part and 3rd Part Writing on the Date in the List of Due Dates. 3

If You Do Not Remember What the History Department Requires about Writing and Primaries. 4

If You Want to Know How Grading on the Paper Works. 4

If You Want to Know Why We Use Footnotes. 4

If You Want to Quote - Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation. 4

 

What Is Different about the 1st Part and 2nd Part Writing?

With both you must use footnotes correctly, but it is easier with this combination:

·         A preformatted file (an .rtf file that works with most software) that I provide and that has copies of parts of these instructions and that also has the required Bibliography on the 2nd page.

·         Microsoft Word for footnotes (Tip: If you do not have Microsoft Word, write your paper keeping it in the .rtf file I provide. Come to one of WCJC’s computer labs and use the file with Microsoft Word to enter the footnotes that you have planned. Proof and print it there.)

What Is Different about the 1st Part and 3rd Part Writing?

With both, you are trying to teach history accurately to someone like yourself. You are not collecting stuff and quoting from it. You are figuring this out in a simple way, explaining it briefly, and citing so anyone can see your proof for what you say. You teach it.

With both, you are graded by the same rubric. Click here for the rubric, how to use it to have better habits, and how to respond to feedback.

Two things are different. The 3rd Part Writing requires that you:

1.       Use the 3 required primaries (sources written by Presidents Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. You must read, write about accurately, and cite accurately each one.

2.       Sign that you have read what WCJC’s explains about personal responsibility.

What are the parts of what you write for both the 2nd and 3rd paper?

You write the 1st page. It consists of your paper and its footnotes (Tip: For exactly how to cite, click on the heading How Do You Cite Facts in Your Paper?)

You do not write the 2nd page, but you do sign at the bottom. The 2nd page provides for you:

·         At the top, the required bibliography. Caution: To use Chicago Manual of Style’s shortened footnotes, you must have a correct bibliography. Do not remove it.

·         At the bottom, WCJC’s explanation of personal responsibility. You sign it.

What Does the 2nd Part Look Like?

The 2nd Part has real footnotes for potential paragraphs, but not yet have real words.

What Do You Read?

Required textbook pages

You must use each of the listed pages. Exception: at least 1 page for early events.

·         Use page 187 (left column only) on the Monroe Doctrine

·         Use at least 1 of these pages about early events tied to the Monroe Doctrine

o   Page 272 about Britain and Texas

o   Page 276 about Britain and California

o   Page 318 about the French and Mexico

·         Use page 468 on Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
If you think Theodore Roosevelt is the only President acting this way, also look at page 498 on Woodrow Wilson so you straighten out your assumptions.  Caution: Do not include Wilson and 498 in your paper. Why? Your paper will be too long.

·         Use pages 571-572 on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy. Tip: The term was used first by Herbert Hoover, but is more frequently associated with FDR.

Required primaries

In the folder labeled Required Primaries, read, use, and cite each of the 3 primary sources. Use only the sections highlighted with yellow.

 

What Do You Write About and How Do You Do It?

What do you write about?

Title to Leave in Your File As a Reminder that You Are Teaching, Not Collecting Words:

Teach Essentials of Monroe Doctrine, TR’s Corollary, and FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy

If you want to see the complete title: What does a 1st year college history student need to know about America’s policy toward its neighbors in the Americas as revealed by these 3 documents?

Do you provide your own title for the paper?

No. Use the title as is and the file provided as is.

Why? So that your paper will not exceed 1 page.

Citation?

The footnotes you must use are provided in How Do You Cite Facts in Your Paper (below)

Length?

With the format below, the paper and the footnotes must be less than 1 page. A test using Microsoft Word shows 1 page and its footnotes as under 500 words. That is your maximum word count; less is better. Cautions:

·         Do not let your paper and its footnotes go over 1 printed page.

·         Do not change the font size or type, margins, double spacing, or paragraph indentation.

·         If it is too long, delete your own words.

Format?

If you are inexperienced with files, you may change everything without meaning to if you copy in information from a different file. Tip: If you copy words from a PDF of one of our primary source, your computer may apply a different sized font and spacing. To avoid problems, when you copy text for a quotation, change it immediately to 11 point Calibri. Caution: double check that these settings before you submit. If you do not know how to do that, ask.

·         Double-spaced.

·         11 point Calibri font.

·         Margins -1” on the left and .5” on the right
Why the wider margin on the left? For the same reason as on the 1st Part. The left margin is where your instructor gives feedback on writing.

Turnitin and files?

Turnitin accepts these types of files:

·         A Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx)

·         An Adobe file (.pdf)

·         An Open Office document (.odt)

Requirements for word processing and proofing?

1.       Microsoft Word automatically does footnotes with the correct number and the correct location at the bottom of the page. It can also run spell and grammar checking.

2.       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.)

 

What Are the Basic Rules for Citations from the Evidence Quizzes?

1.       You cannot say anything beyond a one sentence opening without evidence—without a citation to a specific page.

What Are the Shortened Citations for Your Sources?

To use the shortened citations provided below, you must keep the Bibliography listing the 3 primaries and the textbook. 3 Cautions to save time and to avoid a failing grade for the 2nd Part:

1.       Copy and paste the Shortened Citation into the footnote and change the page number if needed.

2.       Use Microsoft Word to do footnotes automatically.

3.       With primaries, use only parts of the document highlighted in yellow.

What You Want to Cite

Required Shortened Citations for Your Footnotes

If the fact is from the textbook The Brief American Pageant, the required textbook.

If your fact is from page 571 of the textbook, use this in your footnote.

Kennedy, Cohen, and Piehl, American Pageant, 571.

If the fact is the Monroe Doctrine (Required Primary 1)

This printable PDF is only 1 page. (No page number is required.)

Monroe, “Transcript of Monroe Doctrine,” 1.

If the fact is from Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine  (Required Primary 2)

This printable PDF only has yellow on the 2nd page, so the page number for this paper is always 2:

T. Roosevelt, “Corollary to Monroe Doctrine,” 2.

If the fact is from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech including the Good Neighbor policy (Required Primary 3)

This printable PDF only has yellow on the 1st page, so the page number for this paper is always 1:

F. Roosevelt, “Address at Chautauqua,” 1.

Click here If You Want to Know Why We Use These Shortened Citations (This link goes to the bottom of this webpage.)

Where Do You Submit the 2nd Part and 3rd Part Writing on the Date in the List of Due Dates

2nd Part

You submit it in the Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of this folder.

To see it, you must respond to the feedback and return that form to your instructor so you have a grade for the 1st Part Writing. If you have a grade for that writing but do not see the Turnitin Assignment, please email me at bibusc@wcjc.edu.

3rd Part

You submit it in the Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of this folder (below where the 2nd Part is)
To see it, you must have a grade for the 2nd Part Writing.  If you have a grade for that writing but do not see the Turnitin Assignment, please email me at bibusc@wcjc.edu.

 

If You Do Not Remember What the History Department Requires about Writing and Primaries

Let go of your biases and assumptions. Tip: This link defines the words primary and secondary history or covers History Department’s requirements for all instructors. Save yourself from unnecessarily low grades by understanding these words and these realities.

If You Want to Know How Grading on the Paper Works

For this assignment, you look at the graded rubric and the corresponding marks on your paper. You fill out the form at the bottom of the rubric identifying which of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence that you missed. After you do that, I enter the grade at My Grades. The point value is covered in the syllabus.

If You Want to Know Why We Use Footnotes

The reasons are:

1.       All of your written assignments are required to be brief. (Brief is harder, but generally makes better thinking.) If you used traditional MLA citation which is written inline (within your lines of text), you would use up your word count much faster.

2.       History’s standard, the Chicago Manual of Style, provides rigorous citation, but not inline. Instead, it uses footnotes to provide citation.

In other words, citation is there but it is not in the way of communication of the history. The citation is not written within your lines of text because of how historians write about history.

·         They want people to be able to check for a source if the reader does not know it and to skip the source if they already familiar with the evidence. (Unlike the other standards for citations, readers can ignore citation or quickly find the source for a specific fact by looking for a footnote with a specific number.)

·         They are helping people understand the past, not just providing a collection of facts.

·         That is your job as well. Why? When you try to help someone understand history, you start to understand it yourself. If you want to understand something, try to teach it.

There is one other benefit: only Chicago Manual of Style and its notes about evidence (either footnotes or footnotes) let a person prepare a document with footnotes, copy it, and then delete all the notes. Example: a 1-page memo for a boss.

 

3.       In this class, you place your citation in footnotes. I provide a bibliography so that the citation can be the shortened citations that Chicago Manual of Style permits.

If You Want to Quote - Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation

Click here for additional tips.

The rules for showing what you have taken out (…) of the author’s words or put in ([ ]) are complex and for most of us they are not worth learning.

 

This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:

  1. Choose 3 to 6 words to quote and change nothing (not an ing or an ed, not a comma, nothing) between the first and the last word.

  2. Put a “ before the first word and a ” after the last word.

  3. Place those words with the “ ”within your sentence.

 

  1. If something sounds awkward about your sentences, then change your own words—the only words you have a right to change.

 

  1. Look at all of the words in the source. Be sure the meaning of the source remains in your quotation.

 

 

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2019

 

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