Survey of World History II Section W15 Spring Semester 2023 CO
Skill-building objectives:
Analyze and compare primary-source documents.
Understand and describe relevant context.
Tasks for Source Paper 1 (early-modern period, 1450s-1760s.
Analyze two primary sources: What major theme do they share? How are they in conversation with one another?
Use two secondary sources to provide context: What events were occurring or ideas circulating at the time the documents or images were created? To what events or ideas do they refer? What happened afterward?
Requirements:
Word limits: 800-1,000 words.
If you choose to write the minimum length, be aware that your writing must be both concise and detailed to get a good grade.
Primary source citations:
List the primary sources you are using at the top of your paper.
If you are using a document from the textbook, list the author, title in quotation marks, and page number in the textbook.
DO NOT use the “Source” information at the bottom of the document. You are not using the publication listed there, you are using your textbook and that is what you should cite.
Example:
Hernán Cortés, “Approaching Tenochtitlán (1520),” 624-626.
If you are using a source discussed in class, list the title given to you in quotation marks.
Example:
“Fatwas by Eu’s-Su’ud Efendi, Ottoman shaykh and judge (1490-1574).”
Secondary source citations:
List your bibliographic citations at the top of your paper, using the format outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style online citation guide.
Chicago Manual of Style, online citation guide: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html.
Use the following models:
Book Bibliography entry second example.
Formula:
Author’s last name, Author’s first name. Book title: book subtitle. City of publication: Publisher, year.
Example:
Dominy, Graham. Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Journal article Bibliography entry third example.
Formula:
Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Journal article title: journal article subtitle.” Name of publication Volume, no. (Month year): start page-end page.
Example:
Carrasco, David. “Quetzalcoatl’s Revenge: Primordium and Application in Aztec Religion.” History of Religions 19, 4 (May 19880): 296-32
Tips for organizing a historical essay:
Introduction: briefly mention each of your sources and how they relate to your topic or theme.
Body paragraphs: analyze your sources (primary and secondary) in conjunction with one another.
I recommend that you NOT separate your sources and write about them in separate paragraphs. That organizational scheme will tend toward summary, not analysis and will hamper you from discussing them in conjunction with one another.
Conclusion: recap the main points from your sources and how they relate to your topic or theme.
