History 1123
Informal Writing #3: How Can One Narrative Be Drawn From Many?
General
Instructions:
As we have seen in our discussion of sources so far, different sources
contain different perspectives. Each source is, in a sense, like
the person(s) who created it, unique and idiosynractic. Yet
historians have to compose a narrative with one general trend or
narrative to nevertheless while still representing as much of the
individuality as possible of each of the sources they use. In
your next formal paper, you will be writing about perspectives on
European/Native American or European/African encounters in the Atlantic
world using the sources assigned for 2.7 or 2.21 respectively. In this
informal writing, then, I want you to practice the skill of
representing a
combination of sources within a single narrative by assembling ALL of
the primary sources (i.e. documents, so
do not use Ways
of the World) assigned for either
2.7 (World History in
Documents, 163-176; the New Laws of the Indies (Spanish):
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1542newlawsindies.html)
or 2.21 (World
History in
Documents, 177-189; Thomas Bluett, Some
Memoirs of
the Life of Job,
the Son of Solomon at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bluett/bluett.html**, Section 2, pp. 19-24.) into a short, 1-page,
double-spaced paper in Times New Roman 12-pt. font that does the
following:
1. Presents a brief overview of
what the sources show about European and indigenous perspectives.
2. Discusses the general trend in the sources, but also the
individual
perspectives on the encounter from the indigenous perspective, being
careful to identify any assumptions underlying this perspective or
world view.
3. Discusses the general trend in the sources,
but
also the individual perspectives on the encounter from the European
perspective, being careful to identify any assumptions
underlying this perspective or world view.
4. Discusses any general conclusions you drew from these perspectives
(here you might restate your overview and add any additional insights
that emerged).
5. Provides footnotes for the two middle sections of the paper:
The main entry for the reader
should look like this:
"Title of Document Section," in World
History in Documents: A
Comparative Reader, 2nd ed., edited by Peter N. Stearns (New
York: NYU Press, 2008), page #.
The short form for the reader (to be used after you have created the main
entry for a source and then interrupted
its citation by citing another source) would look like this:
"Title of Document," page #.
For the web-related source I would like you to try your best to use the
following resource to come up with your own footnote formatting for the
main entry and
the short form using the following resource (consult example #35): http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch10_s1-0001.html
Remember, for consecutive citation use. Ibid. or Ibid., page # as
appropriate (and note that there are no page numbers for web-based
sources so stick with Ibid. there)
Submitting
Your Assignment:
You may submit your assignment person through February 28th (in
class or to my departmental mailbox in 633 South Shepler
Tower) or online through the class Blackboard module via the
Paper Submission
Portal through 2.28 @ 11:59 p.m.