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Final Assignment SSC 232

This document provides instructions for a final assignment in an introduction to historical methods course. Students are assigned individual authors to research using the JSTOR database. They must [1] provide a full bibliographic citation for a selected journal article by their assigned author in Turabian style, [2] list and categorize 3 primary sources used in the article, [3] list 3 secondary sources engaged with and comment on how they are used, [4] comment on the author's writing style, and [5] assess what school of historiography the author's methods align with. The assignment aims to teach students to identify different types of historical writing.

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Final Assignment SSC 232

This document provides instructions for a final assignment in an introduction to historical methods course. Students are assigned individual authors to research using the JSTOR database. They must [1] provide a full bibliographic citation for a selected journal article by their assigned author in Turabian style, [2] list and categorize 3 primary sources used in the article, [3] list 3 secondary sources engaged with and comment on how they are used, [4] comment on the author's writing style, and [5] assess what school of historiography the author's methods align with. The assignment aims to teach students to identify different types of historical writing.

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Name Introduction to Historical Methods

Final Assignment

This final assignment is designed to teach you how to identify various kinds of historical
writing among the secondary sources you will use in your research at IBA and beyond. It
therefore relies on the use of JSTOR, a digital library/online research database used widely
by students at IBA.

You will have to attempt your own assignments individually. This is not a group assignment.
You will have eight days to complete this assignment, so please take your time. This will
involve identifying the assigned author, surveying their various articles on JSTOR, choosing
one you like, exploring the article text and perhaps even just Googling their name to find out
more about them.
If you run into any major obstacles while completing this assignment, please let me know.
Do not, however, attempt to plagiarize from your colleagues’ work. I will find out and the
penalty for plagiarizing will be a zero in the final assignment. That will be thirty percent
gone from one’s grade. Please do not risk it.

INSTRUCTIONS
A) Open the Excel file attached to this assignment.
B) See the name of the author assigned to you.
C) Go to JSTOR
D) Search for the assigned author in the search bar. You can also use the advanced search to
search by author or just type out the name in format au: “AUTHOR NAME”
E) See the search results
F) If they include works which are not journal articles i.e. book chapters, please limit your
search to journal articles by ticking “Journals” under ACADEMIC CONTENT on the
left.
G) If the articles still do not look like they are history articles, tick “History” under
“SUBJECT” on the left.
H) Open the journal article of your choice, written by the historian assigned to you. You can
read it in the browser or download it (recommended).
I) Answer the following questions.

QUESTIONS/TASKS
1) TYPE out the COMPLETE bibliographic entry for the selected journal article in the
Turabian style.
2) LIST any three of the primary sources used by the author in the Turabian style.
3) PLACE these sources in one or more of the primary source genres (e.g. material, oral,
narrative, diplomatic/juridical, social) studied in class. Limit your response to three lines.
4) LIST three of the secondary sources used by the author.

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Name Introduction to Historical Methods
Final Assignment

5) COMMENT on how the author engages with these three secondary sources. Are they
used to provide information or inform authors of scholarship? Are they challenged? Are
they used to support the author’s argument? Limit your response to six lines.
6) COMMENT on the author’s style of writing? Is it descriptive, narrative, expository,
argumentative or some combination of the above? Explain why. Limit your response to
six lines.
7) Can the author’s scholarly methods and approaches be placed within one of the schools
of historiography studied in class? Why or why not? Justify your choice with a brief
explanation. Limit your response to six lines.

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