Getting Started

January 7

• introductions
• One page statement of your question/purpose for your thesis project; due: January 21

 Getting to the Sources

January 14

• Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing"
• "A Sense of History: Some Components," Gerald W. Schlabach, 2000
• Rampolla, sections 4 & 5
• Library resources
• You can review using library quizzes

• Meet with a research librarian: Dr. Kathy Payne (KLPayne@weber.edu, 6511)
• or Dr. Wade Kotter (wkotter@weber.edu , 7458) Write 1 page paper describing their research suggestions. Due: January 21
• Discussion of readings

The challenge of writing

January 21

• oral reports of appointments with librarians (1 page summary due)
• oral reports of research topic
• Find a scholarly article in a history journal (such as the William and Mary Quarterly) on your thesis topic. Write a short paper critiquing the article. Due: January 28  (final draft due: February 4--may send email: kmackay@weber.edu)

 On interpretation

January 28

• Shrunk and White (or any good grammar text)

• peer review: bring to class 2 copies of the critique paper. We will use a writing rubric for this review.

 The Scholarly Literature Search

February 11

• Rampolla

• annotated bibliography of 6 scholarly sources
• bring to class 2 copies for peer review of bibliography
• oral report of primary sources being researched

Rough Draft

March 4

• bring 2 copies of rough draft for peer review.

Rough Draft

March 18

• return of rough draft with MacKay's comments
• discussion of problems, adventures, etc.

Undergraduate Research Symposium: March 23

Final Draft

April 15

• Rampolla

• bring to class 2 copies of final draft for peer review--plan to spend class time reviewing the texts. MacKay will return her comments on the drafts April 22.

Oral Presentations

April 22

• each student will present orally (5 minutes) their research.
• colleagues should support each other by paying attention and asking thoughtful questions of presenters
• dinner will be included

The final paper should:

• be in 12 point Times New Roman font, 1 inch margins, left justification.
• have footnotes not endnotes.
• follow the Turabian (7th edition, appendix) guidelines for title page, page numbering, and bibliography (works cited).  You may list government documents separately from other works cited. You may list primary and secondary sources separately.
• follow Turabian (7th edition, section 25) in the use of quotations--including punctuation and block quotes of more than 4 lines.
• All charts, photos, maps should be tabled and numbered = fig. 1, etc. The page number should be repressed unless the images are fully integrated into the written text. There is no need for a Table of Contents; however, a list of figures and their page numbers should be part of the front materials.