Tokugawa Iemitsu Essay

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#3 Final Research Paper Information

• Write your paper as a first person

• Use 12-point font, Times New Roman.

• Text should be double spaced

• Number pages consecutively

• Individual part should be 2400 words or more.

• Submit group part by Group Discussions and Individual part by Turnitin. It may be

wise to submit early, so that you can check your citations are properly done.

• Source materials are documented according to academic MLA style only.

• Check the site for MLA style.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_style_introduction.html

Introduction and General information (1. and 2.) are the Group Discussions. Due is 04/19.

1. Introduction --- The brief history of the background of Edo (Group Collaboration)

2. General information of genre (Group Collaboration)

Individual paper starts from 3. Biography. From here you will write as a first person. The

final paper due is 04/28,11:59PM.

3. Biography or autobiography of you. (one paragraph only) If it is hard to find exact

biography of the person, you may write a general background of your genre.

4. Field and background that you had contributed in Edo period; women’s world, samurai

code, Merchants’ lives and their changing status, farmers lives and their changing status, artist

world, etc. Then explain specific field that you are in; haikai, literature, samurai, kokugaku,

merchant, economist, activist, etc.

5. Discussion --- Your own opinion. “REACT” to the society as the first person. You may

criticize the society that you are in and suggest your own ideas that could renovate the

society.

6. Conclusion --- Your strong message to the contemporary Japanese society

7. Works cited -- Use at least 5 sources for individual paper. (Books, peer reviewed journals).

Use Library Guide that is specially designed for our class.

Source materials are documented according to academic MLA style. The source materials

should be cited always consistently.