Early World History Paper 2 d

This Paper is built around the reality that, unlike your first writing assignment, most historians confront multiple sources and have to make sense of them. That being the case, in this essay it will be your task to understand women's lives in the classical era. It will be your task to discuss women's lives in Greece, China, and India in the classical period and compare them with women's lives in Islam, Byzantium, and Europe in the post-classical era using primary sources in World History in Documents, pp. 48-57, 90-99 and Strayer, Ways of the World, pp. 170-177 by synthesizing primary and secondary sources for each era in terms of similarities and differences in women's lives and then similarities and differences between the two eras:

You must submit a draft of your paper by Wednesday, October 19th through the Safe Assignment Portal that I will make available in the course Blackboard module. Your paper should have the following sections:

1. An introduction of one-half page in which you express your position on the key difference between women's lives in the classical and post-classical eras (25% of the mark for the paper).

2. A one-half page evaluation of the similarities and differences in women's lives in the classcial era (25% of the mark for the paper).

3. A one-half page evaluation of the similarities and differences in women's lives in the post-classical era (25% of the mark for the paper).

4. A one-half page summation of your positions in the previous two sections with a conclusion in which you state what the key difference was between women's lives in the classical and post-classical eras. (25% of the mark for the paper).

General Standards: First, you must type your paper using standard margins (1 inch all around), Times New Roman font and a 12-point type size. Next, you must properly document your use of other people's work in this essay. In plan terms, whenever you comment on or quote from the web-source linked below, I expect a proper footnote indicating what material in that book you are referencing (a 25% reduction on your paper will occur if you fail to document your work properly). For examples of how to footnote, click on the General Guidelines hypertext in the Source Paper section of the web syllabus. You will also find hints on how to write well and on general guidelines as to what I look for in written work. Finally, your essay must be two full pages in length, double-spaced.

There are three ways that you can choose to format the main entry footnote for each of your sources in this paper. Please note that for all examples I will be assuming that it is page 87 in Worlds of History that you are meaning to cite.

Please note that using this format, you only need to produce one main entry, but note that it is fairly general as to the actual source you are using.

Example 2) Aristotle, "The Athenian Constitution: Territorial Sovereignty," in Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, 3rd ed., edited by Kevin Reilly, vol. 2, Since 1400 (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007), 87.

Please note that in the case of this format you will need to produce one main entry for each individual source that you use. The benefit to you here is that you can give your reader more specificity upfront as to what source you are using. Also, once you have mentioned Worlds of History once you will be able to abbreviate references to it for other main entry footnotes for other sources to: Worlds of History, followed by the page number you are citing. Finally, once you have mentioned this source once you would be able to use a short form for it as well, such as Aristotle, "The Athenian Constitution: Territorial Sovereignty," followed by the page number you are citing.

Example 3) Aristotle, "The Athenian Constitution," in Aristotle, Politics, and the Athenian Constitution, trans. John Warrington (London: David Campbell Publishers, 1959) as quoted in Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, 3rd ed., edited by Kevin Reilly, vol. 1, To 1550 (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007), 87.

Please note that in the case of this format you will need to produce one main entry for each individual source that you use. The benefit to you have here is that you can give your reader more specificity upfront as to what source you are using. Also, once you have mentioned Worlds of History once you will be able to abbreviate references to it for other main entry footnotes for other sources to: Worlds of History, followed by the page number you are citing. Finally, once you have mentioned this source once you would be able to use a short form for it as well, such as Aristotle, "the Athenian Constitution," followed by the page number you are citing.

After this first note all other quotations should use Ibid. and indicate the page number cited. You will not need to cite from any book other than this book to write the paper.