Where
Do You Submit 3rd Part Writing? (Same Location and Prerequisite)
What
Is Essential Background for Success with These Primaries? (Repeated from Prior
Instructions)
If
You Want to Know How Grading on the Paper Works? (Repeated from Prior
Instructions)
If
You Want to Know Why We Use Footnotes(Repeated from Prior Instructions)
Caution: 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.
What are the parts of what you write for both the 2nd and 3rd paper? |
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What is the rubric used to grade each Part of the Writing? |
For the 2nd Part and the 3rd Part, click here for the rubric, how to use it to have better habits, and how to respond to feedback. |
What do you read? |
In the textbook, you need only 3 pages from our textbook, but they are essential and you must concentrate and not assume. 1. Optional but citable if it fits how you are teaching this content: Page 125 on the Northwest Ordinance ending slavery in that area for all future settlers. Notice its latitude. You can also cite what is on 252 for this as long as you refresh your memory with 125. 2. Page 180 beginning with the heading "Slavery and Sectional Balance" through the end of page 181. Study the map with care. 3. Page 252 (from a later period but it tells you what you should have seen), the right hand column covers the Northwest Ordinance and what the textbook has previously covered on the Missouri Compromise. (It states briefly what they are and what their consequences were.) It also covers the South’s dependency on slavery with the sentence that: · begins "But as time progressed..." · includes the words "wring profits" Caution: wring is not a positive word. · ends with "that carpeted the South. It also covers the South’s need for land to keep slavery profitable and what this argument is: “the extension of expanding slavery into the western territories.” In the folder below this link, read, use, and cite each of the 3 primary sources in the folder under the next heading. Also notice the instructor’s link Grounding Your Thinking in Math. The fundamental problem was that the North was continuing to grow in population and territory and the South was not. You do not want to repeat it, but may cite it as evidence that the South was dependent on the Senate—and thus more slave states—to be able to block the North from some laws and potentially from changing the Constitution. Use no other pages or sources–and certainly not your memory. |
What do you write about? |
Background of the
question: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is one of 100 Milestone Documents
at Our Documents. Your formal question is What does a freshman college history
student need to know about the Missouri Compromise? Notice:
The reminder question that goes at the top of your page is: FYI: You have to reveal that you understand this fully, including Northern and Southern issues. As a great professor explained, “You must understand everything; you do not have to write everything. To teach honorably, you must select carefully what you teach.” |
Do you provide your own title for the paper? |
No. Use the file provided as is so that your paper will not exceed 1 page. You leave the title exactly as it is. You do type your first and last name on your paper and the hour that your class starts. |
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. Do not
have your paper and its footnotes
go over 1 printed page. |
Format? |
Use the file you used last time. Caution: double check that these settings are still correct: · Double-spaced. · 11 point Calibri font. ·
Margins -1” on the left and .5” on the right As before, 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. Caution: If you have the source open while you type or if you take notes on paper, you will think poorly and slower and you will either plagiarize or “half-copy” plagiarize. |
To use the shortened citations provided below, you must provide a Bibliography listing the
4 primaries and the textbook. Caution:
Use Microsoft Word to do footnotes automatically.
What You Want to
Cite |
How You Would Cite
Each Source in Your Shortened Citations as a Footnote |
If the fact is from the textbook The Brief American Pageant |
If your fact is from page 180 of the textbook, use this in your footnote. Kennedy, Cohen, and Piehl, American Pageant, 180. |
If the fact is from Grounding Your
Thinking in the Math |
If your fact is from this 1-page listing
of the 1820 population in North and South and the number of Senators and
members of the House of Representatives and what that reality means on who
can control (if they wish) what laws pass and what changes occur in the
Constitution, use this footnote. Bibus, Grounding Your Thinking in the
Math, 1. |
If the fact is from the instructor’s
link on the Constitution about Slavery in 1820 (1st primary) |
If your fact is from this
1-page listing of all clauses in the Constitution about slavery in 1820, use
this footnote. The Constitution - What Can the South
Lose if the North Wants to Change the Constitution, 1. |
Reflections on the Missouri Question
(1820), John Quincy Adams (2nd primary) |
If your fact is from the second page
of that source, then immediately after your fact you write: Adams, Reflections, 2. Tip: I have highlighted in yellow the sections in the primary that you need to read. It avoids areas students
have misunderstood badly in the past. |
1820, March 6 - Missouri Compromise -
Use only SEC. 8. (3rd primary) |
Since you only use SEC. 8 which is on page 3, then immediately after your
fact you write: SEC. 8 of the Missouri Compromise
legislation, 3 Tip: I have highlighted in yellow the sections in the primary that you need to read. It avoids areas
students have misunderstood badly in the past. |
Click here If You Want to Know Why We Use These Shortened Citations (This link goes to the bottom of this webpage.)
3rd Part |
You submit it in
the Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of this folder. |
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.
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.
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 endnotes or 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 endnotes) let a person prepare a document with notes, 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 and provide a bibliography so that the citation is brief, but clear. FYI: With this 1-page paper, I require you to use footnotes instead of endnotes because it is easier to tell when you are exceeding the maximum amount of text.
Click here for additional tips.
This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:
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