Background on the Chicago Manual of Style, Endnotes, and Evidence
This block of information is repeated in the link on how
to do endnotes with your Unit 1 and Unit 2 Written Exams.
What’s Different about Chicago
Manual of Style and the Citations for This Course
In this course, we:
·
Use a simple format for our endnotes for both
pages from the textbook and for primary sources
·
Do not use a bibliography (a list of works
cited)
The Pages about Chicago Manual of
Style Citation Provided in Evidence Matters
Be sure you read with care the first page provided in
Evidence Matters. It covers both:
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The concept of endnotes
·
What can make evidence false, including
“half-copy” plagiarism and patchwriting.
What the Word Supports Means
Everything
you write (or say) must be supported
by evidence from the department’s chosen textbook or sources in the course. Supported means that readers would say
you read the source carefully and wrote honorably (no cherry-picking or
embellishing):
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If they used a reliable dictionary for the
meaning of words
·
If they read carefully the whole section and
the part preceding and following it
·
If they carefully compared your statements
with the page you cite
Quick Background about What Kind of Citation You May Have Done in the
Past
You may be used to writing citation within your writing.
For example, you may be used to writing something like (McPherson 129) within
your sentence when the author is McPherson and the page you are using is 129.
Writing the citation within the line of text is used in some standards.
On the other hand, the Chicago
Manual of Style does not place the words about the citation within the
line. It refers to the citation by a superscript number—such as this 1—within
the line. That method makes it possible to do two broad things:
1.
To give all of the evidence where anyone can
immediately go to the exact page
2.
But not have that evidence interrupt the flow
of the information
These two things match the goals of the History Department
and of this course:
1.
For History, you must have evidence for what
you write. (See the goals on page 2 of the syllabus.)
2.
For this course, you must be factually
accurate and explain simply as though you were trying to teach someone the information.
Tip: If you want to
learn something, try to teach it.
The instructions for the simplified methods of using
endnotes in this course are provided for:
·
Unit Written Exams for Unit 1 and Unit 2
·
Analysis of Primary Sources
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