28 Dec Regarding Internet

HIST553 History of Colonial America

Assignment – Jamestown Matters” Website Analysis

“Jamestown Matters” Website Analysis: The “Jamestown Matters” analysis is drawn from the scholarly examination of the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University) site “Jamestown Matters.”

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/Virginia%20matters/index1.html (Available Under “Exhibitions” page 4)

This site commemorates the 400th anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown, and contains an extraordinary gathering of “foundation” books. In order to encourage “adventurers” (investors) and “planters” (colonists) the Virginia Company of London published nine tracts between 1609 and 1615 that described in glowing terms the opportunities presented by the new colony on the James River in Virginia. The documents in this collection present one of the most important sources of information about the early years of the colony. Once you have carefully examined the material, write an informal, 750-1,000 word review of the website that answers the following three questions. Note – There is a 250 word count minimum for each question response:

1. What generalizations can be made about the early stages of English colonialism in North America?

2. How did the early English explorers view the land and people of the “New World”?

3. How did the colonists portray their role in the contact experience?

*Note: You are required to explicitly use the site’s webpages in each of your responses. For example: “In item [25] “Idyllic Vision of Virginia,” Theodor de Bry offers potential colonists overly optimistic written and pictorial descriptions of the country lured the unwary by presenting Virginia as a kind of “no work required” land of milk and honey.”

The website review shall be typed, double-spaced, and in a 12-point Times New Roman font. There will be 15 possible grade points awarded for submission of the “Jamestown Matters” analysis. See the attached sample document – including placeholder (Lorem Ipsum) text – for the assignment’s recommended format.

Use file attachment protocols for assignment submission. Please be forewarned that the sample provided is only discussing how the questions may be addressed, so feel free to use that as a template. Obviously, it does not pertain to citation or other specifics (it is in Latin after all).

HIST553 History of Colonial America

Assignment – Preliminary Annotated Bibliography

For this assignment, you are required to submit a preliminary annotated bibliography of works that you anticipate might be included in your final Historiographical Essay. At this point, a minimum of 15, properly formatted ANNOTATED items are required. To illustrate the proper format, a sample annotated bibliography is attached below.

For details, see the syllabus and the “Historiographical Essay” documents that are attached to the Historiographical Essay assignment instructions. Do remember to apply the required Chicago style protocols. The most current version of the Chicago Formatting Style Guides are available in the online library: http://apus.libguides.com/APUS_ePress/chicago. Note that significant points will be deducted for failure to annotate your entries.

Sample Annotated Bibliography

Annotation means a comment about the bibliographic entry. It is not a review or complete summary of what you read. The annotation should not be longer than three to five sentences, but indeed be longer than a single sentence or phrase.

Annotated Bibliography

Title of Essay/Analysis/Paper

Student Name

Bissett, Susan and Lisa Bruckman. “Union County College Libraries Citation Guide: Documenting Sources Using Turabian.” September 2000.

This is a pamphlet prepared by two UCC librarians and available at the UCC Library. This pamphlet was specifically produced for my courses and thus may qualify as an original source. It really belongs in the category of “pamphlet.”

The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

This is a 956 page tome that tells you more than the ordinary person would ever want to know about formatting a book for publication. The chapters on documentation explain how do do bibliographies. It seems to me that Web citations are still not fully integrated even in this 2003 edition. One would expect that Turabian will soon follow with an updated version of her briefer book.

Ohio State University Libraries. “Guides to the OSU Libraries: Turabian Citation Guide.”

Available online from: .

Last Update: 10/22/03, The Library Instruction Office. [Accessed on 28 October 2003.]

This web site provides additional examples of how to do bibliography in the Turabian format. There are many formats for citing web sites, unfortunately.

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Turabian’s Manual, 6th ed., is based on the fourteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (1993). Turabian is an abbreviated condensation of the more comprehensive University of Chicago Manual. Turabian is available at most town libraries, and can be bought at most bookstores.

Again, this is simply a sample annotated bibliography formatting guide. For specific entry formatting see the Chicago Style Guide

HIST553 History of Colonial America

Assignment – Historiographical Essay

Historiographical Essay – The Seven Years War and its Implications for Colonial America: A historiographical essay summarizes and analyzes interpretations of scholars on a given issue or topic. For this assignment, your assigned topic will be the Seven Years War and its implications for Colonial America. Remember, the historiographical essay is a special type of analytical writing that only considers secondary sources – available through the online library EBSCO, JSTOR and ProQuest databases, among others – and traces how historians have interpreted this topic over time. Essays will be a minimum of 2,500 and a maximum of 3,500 words and must include a minimum of 20 relevant secondary sources. Annotation is not required in the final essay bibliography. The grading rubric for this assignment is attached below. For additional guidance, the sample historiographical essay – “General Douglas MacArthur’s Application of the Principles of The Art of War” – is also attached. Note that it identifies and reviews secondary sources that approach the topic and is not a general history essay.

Note that the reference citations are not to be included in the word count, and the essays shall be typed, double-spaced, and in a 12-point Times New Roman font. Again, citations are required and must follow the Chicago footnote/bibliography citation protocols.

Regarding Internet sources to be used citation purposes, acceptable sites include scholarly websites and documents available through the APUS Online Library, or other academic and governmental holdings, libraries, archives and databases. For our purposes, Wikipedia (as well as the other “Wiki” sites) is not considered a valid academic source. Note that as graduate students, it is your responsibility to ensure the proper formatting for your bibliography and footnote entries. There will be a total of 35 possible grade points awarded for submission of the historiographical essay. Use file attachment protocols for assignment submission.