This is the prompt: This draft should cover different material than your first section draft did, as this should come from another part of the body of your paper. It should still have a clear opening and introductory paragraph, a logical sequence between paragraphs, and a concluding section. Either (or both) the intro or conclusion should provide a possible transition to the preceding or subsequent section, depending on where within your paper this section will fall. It should be about 5 pages in length (though see the note at the end of these directions), and should include Chicago-style footnotesLinks to an external site. for all sources.
Your first major goal should be to lay out the material you want to present, in the order in which you want to present it, and to footnote your sources carefully.
Your second major goal should be to think about how you plan to connect this section to the section you already wrote. Ideally you will leave some indication of how the two sections will fit together.
While you should not worry about crafting your prose to make it as beautiful as possible, you should work to avoid using the passive voice except where necessary. Consider your use of the active voice now as not simply a stylistic tool but instead as a way of forcing yourself to be precise about your meaning.
I’ll be grading this draft with an eye for the quality of the content and sourcing you offer and the clarity of the structure you create, rather than on your sentence-level prose or grammatical accuracy.
As a final note, you know your drafting style best, so consider the length you need to submit based on what works for you. You want to end up with five solid pages of prose per section at the end of the term. If you tend to “write long” and then pare back, then consider submitting more than five pages now so you can cut back later. If you tend to “write thin” and then flush out later, you could submit four or so pages now and then augment this later. I just need to be able to see what material and ideas you have now without having to guess or make assumptions that there is more coming.
I am going to attach my draft of section 1 to give an idea of my writing style and what to go off of.
Please use the following sources if possible, along with other outside academic sources:
Nora E. Jaffary, “Conception and Pregnancy,” in Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
Nora E. Jaffary, “Contraception and Abortion,” in Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016)