How to Do the 3rd Part Writing

What Is Different about the 2nd and 3rd Part Writing? (Nothing Except Primaries and Topic.). 1

What Do You Read, What Do You Write About, and How Do You Do It? (Additional Pages; Changed Topic). 2

How Do You Cite Facts in Your Paper? (Additional Primaries; Additional Footnotes). 3

Where Do You Submit 3rd Part Writing? (Same Location and Prerequisite). 4

What Is Essential Background for Success with These Primaries? (Repeated from Prior Instructions). 4

If You Want to Know How Grading on the Paper Works? (Repeated from Prior Instructions). 4

If You Want to Know Why We Use Footnotes(Repeated from Prior Instructions). 4

If You Quote (and You Do Not Have to) - Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation (Repeated from Prior Instructions). 5

 

What Is Different about the 2nd and 3rd Part Writing? (Nothing Except Primaries and Topic.)

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?

1.       1st page: Your paper and its footnotes (Use Microsoft Word or another program that can neatly do footnotes for you. A link to Microsoft’s instructions for creating footnotes is below this webpage.)
Tip: The next heading provides the shortened citation for the primaries. You must have a correct bibliography to use the short form of citation.

2.       2nd page: Your Bibliography listing in correct format the textbook and each of the 4 primaries.
Tip: The Chicago Manual of Style Cheat Sheet shows you the format for the textbook and tells you how to do the format for each of the primaries. It is the only part of the Cheat Sheet that you must figure out.

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, What Do You Write About, and How Do You Do It? (Additional Pages; Changed Topic)

What do you read?

In the textbook, use these pages:

·         Page 187 on the Monroe Doctrine

·         Page 460-461 on the Platt Amendment to an Army Appropriations and a treaty with Cuba (Also look at 572 so you do not assume about how the United States will later act.)

·         Page 468 on Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

·         Page 498 on Woodrow Wilson and his actions in the context of the Corollary – Tip: You do not need to include this in your paper. You just need to avoid assumptions and realize TR is not the only one acting this way.

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

 

In the folder below this link, read, use, and cite each of the 4 primary sources in the folder under the next heading. Each primary has search words to help you focus. Caution: Click on the document and use those search words.

Use no other pages or sources–and certainly not your memory.

What do you write about?

Background of the question: Both the Monroe Doctrine and the Platt Amendment one of 100 Milestone Documents at Our Documents. Although not a milestone document, the Teller Amendment shows a different direction for America. Your job is to figure out what to teach another student about these 3 documents and what they show about how America changed.

Your Question Written Formally: What does a freshman college history student need to know about America’s policy toward its neighbors as revealed by these four documents?

Your Title to Change in Your Prior File:

Teach Essentials: Monroe Doctrine, Platt, Corollary, and Good Neighbor

(It is a reminder to you that you are teaching—figuring things out—not collecting words.)

Tip: You have to reveal that you understand this fully, including the context of the time the document was written. As a prof I admired greatly put it, “You have to 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 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.
Caution: do not change the font, margins, or double spacing.

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
Why the wider margin on the left? When you revise the Visual Paper to make the 2nd Part and your instructor gives feedback,
your instructor writes a brief phrase from the rubric in the left margin so you can see where in your paper are the errors that I underlined in the rubric.

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.
(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.)

 

How Do You Cite Facts in Your Paper? (Additional Primaries; Additional Footnotes)

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 571 of the textbook, use this in your footnote.

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

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

If your fact is from this printable webpage, then notice the page number. If your fact is from the 2nd page of this source, use this in your footnote.

Monroe, Monroe Doctrine, 2.

If the fact is from the Platt Amendment (2nd Primary)

If your fact is from this 1-page webpage, use this in your footnote.

Platt, Amendment to an Army Appropriations and a treaty with Cuba, 1.

Caution: You must use the document transcript, not the document info pages which provide background information.

If the fact is from Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine  (3rd Primary)

If your fact is from this printable webpage, then notice the page number. If your fact is from the 2nd page of the source, then immediately after your fact you write:
T. Roosevelt Corollary, 2

If the fact is from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech on the Good Neighbor policy (4th Primary)

Since this is a multiple page webpage, click Print or an equivalent command and your computer will show you its approximate page number. If your fact is from the second page of that source, then immediately after your fact you write:
F. Roosevelt, Good Neighbor Policy, 2

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 3rd Part Writing? (Same Location and Prerequisite)

3rd  Part

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

 

What Is Essential Background for Success with These Primaries? (Repeated from Prior Instructions)

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? (Repeated from Prior Instructions)

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(Repeated from Prior Instructions)

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 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 footnotes) 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 footnotes because it is easier to tell when you are exceeding the maximum amount of text.

If You Quote (and You Do Not Have to) - Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation (Repeated from Prior Instructions)

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 abefore 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.

 

 

 

 

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