If you did or started the 3-Part Writing Assignment, I will not grade this paper if you submit.
Tip: Read over the table of contents below. Notice that there is an equivalent set of information for Your Paper and the Peer Reviews and then the Response. Do the work following the information in order; then come back to these instructions to do the Peer Reviews and then the Response. If you need help, ask.
What
Does Your Instructor Recommend As a Method to Do This Assignment?
What
Are Requirements for Citation for Your Paper that you submit to Turnitin?
What
Is Essential Background for Success with These Primaries?
Resources
Available as Links on This Webpage
If
You Want to Know MORE about Why We Use These Shortened Citations
Brain
Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation
Read and plan carefully, being sure to record the exact page numbers as you plan so you can cite following the citation instructions in this link. Copy the questions below into your word processor file and add a blank line between each paragraph, with 3 short paragraphs being typical (with each paragraph covering a major issue you believe answers the questions). Type your answers and use the word processor’s word count feature to be sure you are within the maximum word count. Also run spell and grammar checking. Tip about the word-processor. You also need to run spell and grammar checking.
Print it and proof it. To proof means to compare side by side your paper and your source to be sure page numbers and facts and names and quotations and everything is correct.
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Sources to Use |
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. In the folder for the primary sources, use and cite each 1 in your paper. The required citation is in the heading below. Use no other pages or sources–and certainly not your memory. |
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Question to Answer |
Background of the question: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is one of 100 Milestone Documents at Our Documents (URL: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/). Your question is 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 great professor explained, “You must understand everything; you do not have to write everything. To teach honorably, you must select carefully what you teach.” |
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Citation |
Covered under the heading below. |
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Format |
The only format that works successfully is a blank line between paragraphs and perhaps italic or bold for a word if grammatically correct to do that italic or bold. |
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Length |
400 words absolute maximum – Less is better. |
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Punctuation |
Make sure it is accurate, especially if you are quoting something. Keep it simple by using this Brain Trick (This link goes to the bottom of this webpage.) |
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Submission |
You must submit your paper in the Turnitin Assignment at the bottom of this folder. If you do this assignment, email your professor so she knows you are taking advantage of this opportunity. Look for the due date at the top of the folder. |
Chicago Manual of Style is the method used in history. Endnotes or footnotes make citation always available but not intrusive in the text because you only show the number of the endnote in the text.. To keep the citations unobtrusive but clear, do these very brief citations:
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What You Want to
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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, 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, 1) |
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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: (Adams, 2) |
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1820, March 6 - Missouri Compromise - Use only SEC. 8. |
Since you only use SEC. 8 which is on page 3, then immediately after your fact you write: (Compromise, 3). |
Click here If You Want to Know MORE about Why We Use These Shortened Citations (This link goes to the bottom of this webpage.)
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, I email my graded rubric to you. After you reply to my feedback, 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
The reasons are:
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All of your written assignments are brief and
have a maximum word count. If you used traditional MLA citation which is
written inline (within your lines of
text), you would use up your word count much faster. You could end up with a
paper that says little but is full of lots of long citation.
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History’s standard, the Chicago Manual of Style, provides rigorous citation, but not
inline. Instead, it uses endnotes (citation at the end of the paper) or
footnotes (citation at the bottom of the page) 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 in this course 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.
· In this class, you use these shortened citation format so that citation is as unobtrusive as possible.
Click here for additional tips. (This tip is also available from the tutorial at the top of Evidence Requirements.)
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This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:
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