w. 42

Friday, 21 October

Here's some information that I'll present at the beginning of class on Friday:


FOOTNOTES:

In your paper you need to have footnotes and a bibliography (källförteckning). I have uploaded a file to help you with how to write your footnotes. BUT, as I will say in class on Friday, it is okay if there is a certain messiness to your footnotes when you turn in your paper. I still need to see where your information came from, but if the notes or bibliography are not done completely to style, we can fix that on Monday after the break.

So, to summarize:

1 – You have to have footnotes and a bibliography when you turn in the paper.

2 – The notes and bibliography can be inconsistent in style.

3 – We will have time to polish the notes and bibliography on Monday after the break.

If you are using your book as a source, you can use the following reference:

Roger B. Beck, Linda Black, et al. World History: Patterns of Interaction,  Orlando, FL: Holt McDougal, 2012, p. #.

You need to add the proper page # or page numbers that you have used. For example:

p. 630

pp. 630–631.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The bibliography is alphabetized by the LAST NAME of the author, or the name of the organzation group behind the information.

Example:

Bassiouni, Mahmoud Cherif. “The Social System and Morality of Islam.” Middle East
Institute. http://www.mei.edu/content/social-system-and-morality-islam (accessed 2013-10-
12).

Calhoun, Craig. Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Dictionary of World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Clearly Cultural. “Individualism.”  http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-culturaldimensions/individualism, (accessed 2014-01-30).

Groothuis, Rebecca Merrill. “The Bible and Gender Equality.” Christians for Biblical
Equality. http://www.cbeinternational.org/files/u1/resources/14-groothius-pdf.pdf (accessed
2014-01-28).

TIP FOR ORGANIZING YOUR PAPER

This is something I do when I write a paper. I write a draft of the paper. I then print it out and cut apart the paragraphs, and I lay out these paragraphs on a table and I test out different orders that I could put the material in, in an attempt to find a logical order for how to present my material.

Doing this often requires that I think about new ways to create bridges (transitions) between the paragraphs.

CAPITALS

Make sure you have capitalized historical periods, proper nouns, religions, countries, ethnic and national groups

All of the following are capitalized:

Scientific Revolution

Enlightenment

Renaissance

Middle Ages

Industrial Revolution (but industrialization)

American Revolution, French Revolution

England, English, Britain, British, United Kingdom, UK

United States, U.S., America, American

France, French

Sweden, Swedish

Are you unsure? Look in the dictionary you have in the dock on your computer?

PAGE NUMBERS

Make sure you have page numbers

HEADER

Have a header with your name

TITLE

Have a title for your paper

TIP FOR CATCHING ERRORS IN YOUR SENTENCES OR SPELLING

Read you paper out loud. This tactic will often help you catch errors – which we often hear even the eyes don’t see them.

Monday, 17 October

ENGLISH:

When quoting material, use quotation marks: “   ”

Do not use italics.

Thus:

Sandy Smith said, “Always use quotation marks for quotes.”

Not:

Sandy Smith said, Always use quotation marks for quotes.

And definitely not:

Sandy Smith said, “Always use quotation marks for quotes.”

Save italics for emphasis:

Sandy Smith said, “Always use quotation marks for quotes.”