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| [a] Shorthand RF |
History 210—Anthropology 275
Final Paper Assignment
Writing From Primary and Secondary Sources
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Your paper should have a title at the top of the page, followed by a “shorthand” list of your sources. From there, space down twice and start your essay...(double-space the essay itself). Examples:
A Week in a Country Jail:
Peasant Uprisings, Social Disorder, and Punishment in
late-Tokugawa Japan
Thomas T. Hall
31 January 1970
1. Peasant Uprisings (Tsuchi Ikki, or Do Ikki), 1428 (Lu,
165)
2. (and so forth)
Salt Miner's Daughter:
Family, Commerce, and Rural Migration in Twentieth
Century Japan
Loretta Lynn
19 December 1970
1. Free Market and Abolition of Za, 1577 (Lu, 189)
2. (and so forth)
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| [b] Saigo RF |
Heaven Says Hello:
Cosmology, Religion, and Popular Belief in Medieval
Japanese Narratives
Sonny James
17 August 1968
1. Nembutsu and the Founding of a New Sect (Lu, 127)
2. (and so forth)
Come Live With Me:
Barbarians, "Otherness," and Foreign Beliefs
During the Sengoku Period
Roy Clark
12 May 1973
1. Limitation on the Propagation of Christianity, 1587
(Lu 196)
2. (and so forth)
Somewhere Between Right and Wrong:
Education, Moral Learning, and Proper Conduct in Meiji
Japan
Earl Thomas Conley
18 December 1982
1. Education of Children (Lu, 258-261)
2. (and so forth)
HIST
210—Japanese History and Culture
Paper
Assignment
Source
Paper Checklist
______ Read the assignment carefully and think about
possible paper topics.
______ E-mail (or stop
by and ask) me any questions you may have.
______ Choose six-to-ten sources from an array of
materials.
______ Create a provisional title for your paper and e-mail it
to me with the sources
in the form listed on page two.
______ DUE NO LATER THAN
Monday, December 3 at 10:00 p.m.
______ Carefully (re-)read your chosen sources in light
of what you have read and
learned from the course thus far.
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| [c] Expert RF |
______ Write an essay on Japanese society, culture, or politics
by relying primarily on those sources you have chosen. Your "audience" should be very intelligent people (such as your professors in other classes) who know relatively little about Japan. You are
the expert, but you must convey the cultural and historical details you have
learned to someone who knows a good deal about academic argument.
NOTE: For this assignment ONLY, you should not make a
separate title page. Center your title
at the top of the first page, followed by your sources. Begin your essay immediately below. Double-space the text of the essay. Finally, put the word count number at the
very end of the paper.
Due at my office by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 12
Stylistic Matters
*Use Chicago-style
footnotes or endnotes for this paper (check my style sheet for instructions,
and make sure that you know how to use them before
you begin writing).
*Although you will list
your sources at the beginning of your paper, please include a bibliography that
includes the full reference to all of those sources, as well as any others you
might use for a quotation or paraphrase in your paper.
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| [d] Making history RF |
*The sources at the
beginning of your paper should be written in an effective “shorthand” that
makes it apparent to the reader what you will be analyzing. The full source reference will appear in the
bibliography (see above), as well as in any footnotes you might use. For example, you should note the chapter or
name of the source at the beginning of the paper—just enough to get your point
across (e.g. Mary Berry, “Preface”). Please refer to the examples on page two.
*You must use accurate
citation, with no mistakes in commonly cited items (e.g. single author
books). Make sure that you master the
relevant skills (and practice with your remaining abstracts). If you need a refresher, check the following
website.
Examples of Footnote and Endnote Formats
Items listed in the bibliography at the end of the
paper (note that the last name comes first in bibliographies).
Ebrey, Patricia. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. New
York: Free Press, 1993.
Mair, Victor. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional
Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
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| [e] Noted RF |
Footnotes or endnotes (first reference to a book;
note that the page number follows the last comma—there is no need anymore for
use of “p.” for “page”). Note the first name/last name format.
Patricia Ebrey. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. (New
York: Free Press, 1993), 154.
Victor Mair. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional
Chinese Literature. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 617.
Subsequent references to books (there will be many
of these for Mair and Ebrey; pay attention to this “shorthand” style). If you
have many references to the same book in sequence, you may use"Ibid."—although (seem my style sheet) you are always better off having author and title listed. The problem with "Ibid." is that it does not allow you to add a source at the last minute without messing up your entire citation structure.
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 277.
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 277.
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 725
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 3.
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 245 (or: Ibid., 245)
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 317 (or: Ibid., 317)
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 168 (or: Ibid., 168)
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 111.
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 145 (or: Ibid., 145)
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 315 (or: Ibid., 315)
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 456 (or: Ibid., 456)
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| [f] Anthology RF |
