APocket Guide to Writing in History is the indispensable guide to all writing assignments you might be faced with in a history course. Full of advice from approaching primary and secondary sources, to organizing your paper, and citing your sources, this slim book provides everything you need to ace your history papers!
Mary Lynn Rampolla (PhD, University of Toronto) is associate professor of history at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Her scholarly work focuses on medieval and early modern Europe. She is active in the fields of history and composition and frequently presents papers at the annual International Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan.
All the advice students need for writing and researching in any history course. This slim resource offers helpful strategies for working with written and non-written sources, approaching typical assignments, writing effective papers, following stylistic conventions, conducting research, documenting sources, and avoiding plagiarism.
Thorough advice on avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources. Clear guidelines and examples help students determine what constitutes plagiarism and correctly paraphrase sources. Annotated documentation models and visual citation guides based on the Chicago Manual of Style demonstrate how to cite print, electronic, and non-written sources.
Updated Chapter 4 providing more comprehensive advice for writing papers and outlines. In response to requests from instructors, this new coverage provides students with advice on how to develop a useful outline, organize a paper, and prepare for a productive session with a writing tutor.
Updated for The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition. All documentation models and instructions have been updated according to the new Chicago style guidelines. New models providing guidance for citing Canadian legal and public sources have also been added to the book.
The following are basic guidelines that you must use when documenting research papers for any art history class at UA Little Rock. Solid, thoughtful research and correct documentation of the sources used in this research (i.e., footnotes/endnotes, bibliography, and illustrations**) are essential. Additionally, these guidelines remind students about plagiarism, a serious academic offense.
If you use microform or microfilm resources, consult the most recent edition of Kate Turabian, A Manual of Term Paper, Theses and Dissertations. A copy of Turabian is available at the reference desk in the main library.
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Linnaeus first published his major classificatory work Systema naturae in 1735, at the age of 28. Systema naturae provided a classification of the (then) three kingdoms of nature: mineral, vegetable and animal.
Linnaeus was the first naturalist to include man within the animal kingdom. In 1735, the class into which Linnaeus inserted man was called Quadrupeds, and the order, Anthropomorpha. These names Linnaeus would change to Mammals and Primates later on in his career. The order of Anthropomorpha contained the genera Homo (humans), Simia (apes) and Bradypus (sloths).
In a botanical tract entitled Critica botanica (1737), Linnaeus further expressed views about the human species and its variations, which for him were not stable and varied according to climate and environment:
[God] created one human, as the Holy Scripture teaches; but if the slightest trait [difference] was sufficient, there would easily stick out thousands of different species of man: they display, namely, white, red, black and grey hair; white, rosy, tawny and black faces; straight, stubby, crooked, flattened, and aquiline noses; among them we find giants and pygmies, fat and skinny people, erect, humpy, brittle, and lame people etc. etc. But who with a sane mind would be so frivolous as to call these distinct species? [3]
The result of this expansion of the classification of man was the 1758 10th edition of Systema naturae, which became the basis for scientific racism. To the four continents and the four varieties of humans, Linnaeus added the four temperaments, or humours. According to medieval medical doctrine, which still had currency in the 18th century, the four humours were thought to be sanguine (blood), choleric (yellow bile), melancholic (black bile), and phlegmatic (phlegm). Their composition within the body was considered to determine a patient's personality and health concerns. By adding these, and other moral attributes, he departed from the purely geographic and environmental factors.
Linnaeus was not the only naturalist writing about the human species in the eighteenth century. In fact, he wrote comparatively less on the subject than his contemporaries, such as the Comte de Buffon and Maupertuis in France, or the German physician Johan Friedrich Blumenbach, all of whom would influence later writers such as Immanuel Kant and Charles Darwin.
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