What
Do You Read Carefully and Write About?.
Requirements
for Citation for Written Papers
If
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If
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What do you read? |
In the primaries for Chapter 1, the Requerimiento of 1510 In the textbook, 27-30 Tip for reading this very important document (stays on this webpage) |
What do you write about? |
Watch your assumptions. Use the primaries and your textbook to answer 3 questions: 1.
What are the two choices the Spanish say the Native Americans have? 2.
Why do they believe they have a right to require one of the two choices? 3. In the years covered in
Chapter 1 in pages 27-30, what were the actual results of Spanish rule on
Native Americans? Tips for Reading, Figuring Things Out, and Writing (Goes to another webpage; click Back to return.) |
Do you provide a heading? |
No, you do not add a heading. You begin writing with the 1st question. You also do not type your name on your paper. On the back of your paper that you bring to class on the date in the Course Schedule, you print your name as it is on the roster, your class days (such as Tuesday-Thursday) and your class time. |
Citation? |
See below for how you cite the primary and the textbook. |
Length? |
330 words maximum – With the format below, it will be less than 1 page. Do not go over 1 printed page. |
Format? |
Use the preformatted file that includes the questions. Do not change any of the settings:
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General requirements? |
Type in a word processor and run spell and grammar
checking. Print it and proof it. |
Where do you submit it? |
In Blackboard, in the Turnitin Assignment below this link. |
What is the rubric used to grade this and all writing? |
Click here for more on the rubric and how to use it to plan your work and when your work is graded. |
If you want to know why we use these shortened citations, click here (goes to the bottom of the page)
What You Want to
Cite |
Example of How You
Would Cite |
If the fact is from the required primary |
If your fact is from page 1 of the Requerimiento, then immediately after your fact you’d write: (Requerimiento, p. 1) |
If the fact is from the required textbook, the Essentials edition |
If your fact is from page 30 of the textbook, then immediately after your fact you’d write: (Essentials, p. 30) |
Read the Requerimiento of 1510 first just to notice the time period. Then read this primary aloud as though you were the Spanish leader facing the Native Americans. Then think about how it would feel to hear this document read to you. Don’t get suckered. What are their assumptions about why they have a right to do this? How does all this actually turn out?
Use a) the primary itself, b) the Chapter 1 of the Essentials text that covers what actually turns out, and c) dictionary definitions that I provide to help you avoid fantasies and assumptions about words.
One other thing might help you realize about 1510: notice the past covered in this quick reference I provide in the resources for Chapter 1: Why you need to recognize prior eras. You cannot understand the primary for Chapter 1—nor the period at all—unless you realize how different these people are from today. For example, they are fine (no guilt at all) about enslaving people. If you were a slave, you would get no pay but instead work for enough to survive another day and to avoid the owner’s violence against you.
The reasons are:
1.
All of your written assignments are brief. 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 are helping people understand the past.
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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.
3. In this class, you may place your citation in either endnotes or inline, but we make that citation as unobtrusive as possible by making it very brief.
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This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:
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