You will be writing only one more paper after the annotated
bibliography. The text of the paper should be a minimum of 1400
words. It should have a title page, proper pagination, footnotes
or endnotes, and a bibliography of all the sources you used in the
notes. You should use at least one or two primary sources. If you
use sources from the Internet, you must have "publication"
informatio, author and date above all.
Therefore, you may NOT use as a source: Wikipedia, blog entries,
general website articles with no given author.
You MAY use: Academic articles from JSTOR, books from
Archive.org, Gutenberg.org, the World War I Document Archive,
Spartacus-Educational, The International Encyclopedia of the Great
War, and similar high quality sites which clearly give author,
date, etc.
You have at least 8 sources for your paper, and you must
integrate your information from these sources. If you find
yourself footnoting three times in a row from the same article or
book, you must integrate your sources more thoroughly.
Use the Chicago
Manual of Style ("Notes and Bibliography Style") for
your footnotes and bibliography (NOTE: footnotes have a different
form from bibliography entries).
If you have questions at any time, just contact me. Or ask during
our class Zoom meetings.
You hould consult with me on your topic. Don't make it too broad.
"The Bolshevik Revolution" is too broad. You are welcome to
write a biographical paper, especially one having to do with a
specific segment of someone's life: "Ludendorff and the Military
Dictatorship in Germany, 1916-1918" or "Two Nurses in World War I:
Experiences from Both Sides of the Trenches," for example.
You may also write on the same topic you chose for your annotated
bibliography. Just let me know in advance. In that case,
your research would be pretty much done already.