SHE USES AI CHECK, SO DONT USE IT OR BE VERY CAREFUL
I HAVE ATTACHED MY BIBLIOGRAPHY AND STATMENT TOPIC, YOU MUST USE THAT AND THE SOURCES OTHERWISE SHE’ll KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG, NEED 6 SECONDARY SOURCES AS WELL.
I HAVE ALSO ATTACHED THE RUBRIC, SHE GRADES OFF THE RUBRIC SO PLEASE USE IT.
The paper is due on Brightspace on Fri., Apr. 19, at 11:59 pm CT. A successful paper will be based on research in medieval primary sources (in English translation) and will demonstrate academic historical skills in formulating a research question, drawing on multiple primary sources, deploying evidence to support a significant thesis, and engaging directly with the secondary literature (historical scholarship) on the topic.
The paper is worth 300 points (30% of the total grade for the course).
PRIMARY SOURCES
Your paper must use at least two (2) different primary sources (things written in the late Middle Ages, 1300–1500 CE). Note that this is a minimum number of primary sources; depending on your topic and sources, you may need more than two primary sources to write a strong paper. You also must be using a scholarly translation/edition of each source in order to use it in the paper. The quality/relevance of these sources, and how effectively you use them, is one of the factors that contributes to your grade on this assignment.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Your paper must use at least six (6) academic/scholarly secondary sources (monographs, journal articles, and/or scholarly essays from edited volumes). By using a secondary source in your paper, part of what you are telling me is that this is one of the best/most important works on your topic that you have been able to find; the quality/relevance of these works, and how effectively you use them, is one of the factors that contributes to your grade on this assignment.
LENGTH
The paper must be 8–10 full pages in length, not counting the title page or the bibliography. To fall within this range, the paper must reach the very bottom of p. 8 and not go past the very bottom of p. 10.
FOOTNOTES
All citations should be complete and provided in footnotes formatted according to Chicago Notes-Bibliography Style. See the Turabian handout and the video guide to using footnotes for further instructions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The paper should be followed by a full bibliography (not annotated) with separate sections for primary and secondary sources. The instructions for spacing and indentation are the same as for the bibliography submitted last month. See the instructions and video guides in the Statement of Paper Topic and Bibliography assignment folder.
FILE FORMAT
Your paper must be uploaded as a Word document or PDF (.doc, .docx, or .pdf only).
GRADING
I will use this rubric to grade the paper.
FORMATTING
These formatting instructions are explained in further detail in the video guide to formatting the paper.
FONT
The paper must be in 12-point Times New Roman font.
MARGINS
Use margins of 1″ on each side.
SPACING
The paper itself should be double-spaced. Footnotes should be single-spaced with an additional blank line between footnotes. The bibliography should be single-spaced with an additional blank line between bibliography entries.
TITLE PAGE
Your paper must have a title page following the model in the video guide to formatting the paper. The title page should provide the title of the paper, your name, the course number and title (HST 352: Crisis in the Late Middle Ages), and the date.
PAGE NUMBERS
Use page numbers at the bottom center or bottom right of each page, excluding the title page. All page numbers should be in 12-point Times New Roman font.
The easiest way to do this is by using the settings in the screenshots below when you insert page numbers into the paper. You will know that you have inserted the page numbers correctly if a) there is no page number on the title, and b) the number 1 appears as the page number on the first page of the paper itself.
These are the settings that you should use for inserting page numbers. Note: This is what the settings window looks like in the current version of Microsoft Word for Mac. If you are using a different version of Word, it will look slightly different, but these are still the settings that you’re looking for.