4 history essays questions

When writing a paper in this class, there are certain professional and academic standards that will be expected.

0. All papers must be cited throughout. This means that if you use information from any source besides the one that everybody uses for the assignment, you must tell me immediately in the paper. You can do this either by a parenthetical citation (author, title of source, and page number if you can find one) or by footnote[footnoteRef:1]. Please note the little number next to “footnote”. This tells me to look at the bottom of the page. Without in-text or footnote citation, you can be accused of lifting somebody else’s thought without giving that person credit. Modern computers have a footnoting function you can use. [1: This is a footnote. Here you can put the same sort of information as a parenthetical citation, or even other information that you think is important, but would break the thought of the paragraph if you tried to put it there. Your computer has a function for doing this automatically.]

0. Any time you quote, you must cite, even if it comes from the source everybody is reading for the assignment. Also, always identify all your sources at the end of the paper, even the common assignments.

0. When using the Sourcebook, I am not the author!! The author to be cited is the person who wrote the excerpt (Augustus, Sappho, Villehardouin, etc)... If this is confusing, then you can use the general editor of the series.

0. Internet sources are not free intellectual property. If you cut and paste from the Internet, you are plagiarizing, a fancy word for stealing somebody else’s thoughts or ideas. Just like hard sources, please cite. If you find that an Internet source says it just right, take the statement and rearrange the ideas into your own words. Then cite it. If you download and paste directly from the Internet, your grade will suffer.

0. Any time I suspect evidence of Internet or any other kind of plagiarism, I will run it through various plagiarism programs I have. If they come out positive, you will fail that assignment.

For each assignment, in 3-5 pages typed, answer the pertinent question. Defend any arguments you make using the source at hand. Be certain to let me know within the introduction the argument you intend to follow. Then, give evidence for your belief, analysis and interpretation of that evidence, and your conclusions. All assignments are due by class time, and will be penalized for lateness. I will not accept “printer ate my homework” excuses.

Plagiarism will be severely punished. If at any time you submit a paper that I discover was in some way plagiarized, I will award a “0” for all previously submitted papers. Plagiarism is the act of incorporating directly quoted or closely paraphrased statements from the work of another author or student without fully citing the source in either a note or a parenthesis. Obviously, with only one source, you may find it necessary sometimes to use the author’s language. Do it as little as possible, and avoid using quotes unless absolutely necessary. However, if you feel a quote or close paraphrase is appropriate, restrict it to two lines at most, and cite its location as best you can in the source.

Papers may be rewritten and resubmitted, with the original annotated submission attached, within one week of the assignment’s original due date.