Technical Requirements
Your response should be at least 3-4 full double-spaced pages long. Use Times New Roman 12-point font. Standard 1″ margins, aligned left.
There should be a title page with your name, our class section, and date as well as a descriptive title.
There should be a Bibliography that includes full bibliographical information for your cited sources. This, and the title page, doesn’t count towards the page count.
References and Citations
You should use Chicago Author-Date to format your references and citations.
Here
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is a guide to how to format citations for different sorts of sources in Chicago Author-Date.
Here
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is an example paper done in Chicago-Author Date that may be helpful.
When citing your primary sources from our course, it is OK to simply cite them as (Document X) where X is the appropriate number. You may use this for both the in text citation and the Bibliography.
It is so important to include not just the list of sources at the end, but the citations to the sources throughout the paper, so it is clear to your reader when and where you drew on sources.
Cite sources when using them to provide historical evidence. Quote and cite when using a source’s language exactly.
Tip: Quoting is best used for when the phrasing is important to your discussion. If you just need to deliver information, paraphrase and cite. If the wording is significant to your argument, quoting is the way to do it.
Submissions with no sources cited will not receive a passing grade.
Draw primarily on your course readings, the Shi textbook and Documents especially. Part of what I am evaluating is your mastery of these materials I have assigned.
General Tips
Your essay-exam should have three broad parts:
Introduction
Establishes your topic and argument. Includes a thesis statement that lays out your conclusions.
Body
Organized into paragraphs. Each paragraph is organized around a theme or major idea that helps support the argument in the thesis.
Each paragraph includes historical evidence and your interpretation and discussion of the evidence, connecting it to your argument.
Conclusion
Reiterate your argument for the reader.
Answers the “So what?” question. Why is this significant? Why should your readers care?
While your voice should appear in the paper, interpreting evidence and making an argument, avoid slang or an overly informal tone.
Be direct about your points, and try to “connect the dots” between your evidence and your conclusions.
The question here is: Discuss the origins and methods of the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the South. As part of your answer, discuss an example of how African Americans responded to this program of disenfranchisement and segregation. Draw on your textbook and at least one primary source Document in your response.
There is a use of resource document here.
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