write a 6-10 page paper thoroughly covering the subject matter. Papers are to be typed in a 12 point standard font (Times New Roman or Arial), double-spaced, with one inch margins and page numbers. No title pages or bibliographies/works cited are necessary.
When writing, you must support your own ideas by citing short passages from the primary source documents in The American Yawp Reader: Vol II (after 1877). Do not confuse the secondary source textbook with the primary source reader.
In your paper, include relevant primary source quotes and their corresponding citations from at least four different readings in The American Yawp Reader: Vol IILinks to an external site. (after 1877). The textbook is categorically not allowed in this paper. Please also note that the primary source passages you do quote from the reader are not too long (a sentence or two at the most is generally adequate), as they’re being used to support your argument, not make it for you. Be sure to then place the borrowed text inside quotation marks (showing the reader you are not using your own words), and place the chapter number, document number, and document title in parentheses at the end of the sentence. I repeat, please be sure that your quotes are just supporting your own argument, not making it for you. Be sure to first contextualize, and then explain your quotes’ relevance to your own ideas.
No secondary sources of any kind (not even the introductions to and overview of the primary sources) should be quoted and cited. The use of any sources other than the primary sources from The American Yawp Reader: Vol IILinks to an external site. (after 1877) is not permitted (this is explicitly not a research paper, but an exercise in primary source analysis). Do not use the first-person voice (i.e. “I,” “we,” “us,” “our”). Unless given explicit permission to do so, the first-person voice does not belong in formal historical writing.
- Do not use contractions. Type out “did not” or “could not.” Do not use “didn’t” or “couldn’t” in formal historical writing.