GRADED ELEMENTS OF THE PPROJECT

          The Seven Components (NO-BOTCH) stitched together make Eight: (NOR-BOTCH -- Notes/Outline/Rough Draft, Bib/Outline-Long/ Topical Essays/ Critiqued Proposal, Historiographical Review) begun in the first week and finished (not completed!) in the last week.

         Of course, your primary sources, and your explanations of each piece of evidence, are likely to be imbedded in most (if not all) seven components, and hence, will appear in the Rough Draft (at least) as a discussion of your Three Main Pieces of Evidence (see syllabus and Week 10).

  1. Critiqued/Finalized Proposal: shaped by critique/feedback/time,re-editing, it states and explains the overall topic & the Thesis;
  2. Literature Review : Historiographical Spectrum which analyzes scholars work already done, the differences in those ideas, methods and conclusions, shows the major issues.
  3. Major Outline: Morphed from your Note Files, contains, in logical order, All links to All Ideas of the Project (more than will be in the finished Project....)
    1. Presentation of Evidence: Your Response to the Thesis
      • Critically Interpret each piece of Evidence/Source
      • Appropriate manner of writing/presenting each piece
      • Each piece of evidence fits only as you explain it
  4. Short Outline: Condensed directly from the Long or Major Outline, the Short Outline is on One Page & Arranges ALL so that Beginning, Middle and End are before you (and me) on one page: it likely will become your Table of Contents for the project.
  5. Topical Essay(s): Explains Area(s) of Inquiry; suggests direction(s) of research
  6. Annotated Bibliography: In History/Turabian style
  7. Note Files morphed into an Outline
    1. Note-Files: (Computer or Card): A MOST IMPORTANT TOOL! Note Files morph into an Outline Long & Inclusive
      • Primary Sources: Evidence responds to the thesis
      • Secondary Sources: Authorities have had their say
      • Integrate all Your ideas throughout as they stimulate
    2. Include all Bib entries in your notes from the moment of cracking each book

         And then, assembling all this together with transitions and discussion of your main pieces of evidence will comprise your Rough Draft, which is due at the end of the term. So building small blocks individually, then stitching them together with the threads of your thought (transitions, explanations, descriptions etc) will result in that rough draft, to be finely refined and finished in 490.

         Those taking 390 only will complete the project (Final Draft, in consultation with the instructor), but one of lesser scope than the 390/490 crew.

 

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