What
Do You Read Carefully and Write About?.
What
Are Requirements for Citation for Your Paper?
What
Is Essential Background for Success with These Primaries?
How
Does Grading on the Paper Work?
What
about the Other 2 Parts of This 3-Part Assignments?
If You
Want to Know Why We Use These Shortened Citations
If
You Quote (and You Do Not Have to) - Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding
Quotation Humiliation
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What do you read? |
In the textbook, page 180 beginning with the heading "Slavery and Sectional Balance" through the end of page 181. Study the map with care. Page 252, the right hand column. Tip: On 252, look for the sentence that includes the words “to wring profits from the sprawling plantations.” Read, use, and cite each of the 3 primary sources in the folder under the next heading. Highlighted yellow can help you focus. Use no other pages or sources–and certainly not your memory. Tip for reading this very important document (stays on this webpage) |
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What do you write about? |
Background of the question: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is one of 100 Milestone Documents at Our Documents (URL: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/). What does a freshman college history student need to know about the Missouri Compromise? FYI: You have to reveal that you understand this fully, including Northern and Southern issues. 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.” |
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Do you provide a heading? |
No, you do not add a heading. 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, and your class time and—if your professor asks for it— your class days (such as Tuesday-Thursday) |
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Citation? |
Covered under the heading below. |
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Length? |
500 words maximum. Less is better. – With the format below, it will be less than 1 page. Do not go over 1 printed page. |
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Format? |
Use the preformatted file that includes the questions. Do not change any of the settings:
The pre-formatted file is an .rtf file (Rich Text Format). You may work in that file or you may save it to another file type that Turnitin accepts. Turnitin accepts these types of files: · A Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) · An Adobe file (.pdf) · An Open Office document (.odt) |
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General requirements? |
Type in a word processor and run spell and grammar
checking. Print it and proof it. |
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Where do you submit it? |
In Blackboard, in the Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of this section |
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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. |
Do not use lengthy citation statements within parentheses () as is done with MLA. You are trying to teach history accurately to someone like yourself. You are not collecting research and quoting from it. You all have the same sources and so you do not want to get a lot of words get between you and your fellow students. Do these things for this writing assignment:
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What You Want to
Cite |
Example of How You
Would Cite |
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If the fact is from the textbook The Brief American Pageant |
If your fact is from page 180 of the textbook, then immediately after your fact you write: (Pageant, p. 180) |
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If the fact is from All Issues in the Constitution about Slavery in 1820 |
If your fact is from that single page, then immediately after your fact you write: (Constitution, p. 1) |
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If the fact is from Reflections on the Missouri Question (1820), John Quincy Adams |
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: |
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If the fact is from section 8 of the Missouri Compromise |
Since you only use SEC. 8 which is on page 3, then
immediately after your fact you write: |
Click here If You Want to Know Why We Use These Shortened Citations (This link goes to the bottom of this webpage.)
The first item in the folder is required background so you can ground yourself in math. Use it.
Let go of your biases and assumptions. Study the map as though you were alive then and your future was at stake. Use the link at the top of the folder and ground yourself in math.
Tip: If you never looked at the links about these links when you did your Course Plan, do it now. 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.
What is a rubric? Merriam-Webster’s Online
Dictionary defines a rubric as “a guide listing
specific criteria for grading or scoring academic papers, projects, or tests.”
Frequently, rubrics are in a table:
· With rows for each criteria (such as this one with criteria for Reading FOR Evidence, Writing WITH Evidence, Following Directions for Evidence, and Mechanics)
· With columns for each grade level (such as this one with columns for “F” through “A.”
Click here for an explanation of the rubric and how to use it as a grader or as someone graded. (This is also available in several parts of the course including in Evidence Quiz 4.)
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 @ 50 points for content and @ 50 points for following all 5 Good Habits for Evidence
When you see your paper, you also receive the paper you will peer review.
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.
Click here for additional tips.
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This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:
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