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Announcement:
The two most crucial aspects are a refined thesis and a specific reference to the primary sources you will be using and what new or important insight they will yield.
Instructions
The paper abstract should be a well-developed paragraph or two that describes the thesis, the supporting materials, and the organization of the planned interpretive essay. Do not use first-person. The abstract is single-spaced. This should be as detailed as possible but brief, and be modeled on abstracts in scholarly journals that provide the researcher information about the entire article. (For examples, go to Google scholar and enter some academic subject and “abstract”).
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Think of the abstract as a succinct summary that describes your intent for the paper, including a thesis statement, and specific primary sources you intend to use and why. Answer the question: Why is this paper important? Think of the abstract as being read by professional historians.
By the way, this class is U.S. Constitutional History
Writing Expectations
As this is a graduate history course, there are expectations that students turn in assignments and papers that are proof-read and written in a style that demonstrates good grammar and sentence and paragraph construction. Assignments completed in a narrative essay or composition format must follow the accepted guidelines of the American historical profession, which is the Chicago Manual of Style. This course will require students to use the citation and reference style established by Kate Turabian in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996), which is the most readily available distillation of the Chicago Manual. See Chicago Style Manual.
The Chicago Style Manual for book-length works and its Turabian offshoot for research papers have long been the standard across all fields of study, as well as much of the publishing industry. These texts cover the layout and production gamut–including rules for chapter headings and subheadings, abbreviations, alphabetizing non-English names, and table design/designation.
1. Front matter–e.g., title page, copyright statement, dedication, table of contents, lists of illustrations or tables, acknowledgements, abstract.
2. Narrative with scholarly attributions.
3. Back matter–bibliography, appendices.
Citation and Reference Style
History papers are distinguished by standardized notational schema. These display the primary and secondary sources being quoted or used in the construction. Your professors will certainly call for footnotes or endnotes, but also may request a formal bibliography:
Endnotes/Footnotes, the primary focus in Turabian, are used to indicate the source of a quotation, paraphrase, or resources–as well as to add explanations or digressions outside the flow of the main narrative.
Bibliography is an optional device at the end of the paper, which highlights the materials cited as a separate, alphabetized list in addition to the endnotes or footnotes.
Turabian and the Chicago Manual use sequential Arabic numbers. The numbers are normally collective and at the end of quotations, paraphrased sentences, or paragraphs for collected references. Note numbers:
o May be in-line, but preferably set in raised superscript.1
o Should come at the end of the paragraph and collectively account for the resources used. Do not insert for each sentence. The exception is if a short quotation is used within a paragraph. Then cite as appropriate for the information preceding the quotation, the quotation itself (after commas, quotations marks, periods, or other final diacritics), and at the end of the paragraph if needed for subsequent information.
o Must follow one another in numerical order, beginning with 1 and running continuously throughout the paper.
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