ASK Week 14: Winter Break
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Report Writing
1. Select topic
2. Formulate key questions
3. Sources:
• at least 2 books: examples are book encyclopedias, books about your topic
• at least 2 periodicals (magazine, book, newspaper; may use electronic
archives if the item was originally in print); also includes video, audio, museum visits, and interviews
• less than or equal to two web sites
After the initial four sources are satisfied, any additional sources EXCEPT more than two web sites can be added; however, all four initial sources must be satisfied first.
The report will be a total of five to seven pages, plus a cover page, an endnote page, and one-page bibliography.
Rubric
The report is due on or before Friday, January 5, 2007. The research notecards (all of the
notecards) MUST be turned in at the same time as the report.
Credit for the assignment requires both the paper and the notecards.
The paper should be formatted as follows: Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double-spaced, 1.25 inch left and right margins, 1 inch top and bottom margins. Please use black type on white, unpatterned paper. Graphics do NOT count toward the page total. Please insert any graphics at the end of the paper after the bibliography.
For this particular assignment, citations and quotations should be noted in the text as numbered footnotes. Please remember that each notecard ‘factoid’ must bewritten in your own words.
Notecards
See the pdf for a mockup of what your notecards should look like. Remember to make one source card for each source, and SAFEGUARD IT! You might want to write the source information down elsewhere, just in case.
Be sure to look at your Write Source 2000, page 230-231 for citation and bibliography guidance.
The notecards must be handwritten—not with cutting out text from photocopies and pasting the text onto the cards—or printed out as part of a database project. Note: if you use a database application, your paper will be rigorously scrutinized for inadvertent plagiarism.
The following are examples of the cover page, the superscript notes in the text, the endnotes page, and the bibliography. You can find information about endnotes in the MLA handbook, and WriteSource 2000 for the format for citations. The example text, notes, and bibliography came from the Wikipedia article about Canada.
The paper will be due by the end of the first week in January. It is not a draft version, it will be the final, finished paper.
REMEMBER, BOTH THE PAPER AND THE NOTECARDS MUST BE TURNED IN FOR CREDIT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.
Title of the Paper in bold 18pt Times New Roman
Centered and 3 inches down from the top
By Author Name 4 inches from top of paper
ASK section
Date paper turned in, 2007
Aboriginal tradition holds that the First Peoples inhabited parts of Canada for a very long time, and some archaeological studies support human presence in northern Yukon to 26,500 years ago, and in southern Ontario to 9,500 years ago.4,5 Europeans first arrived when the Vikings settled briefly at L'Anse aux Meadows circa AD 1000. The next Europeans to explore Canada's Atlantic coast included John Cabot in 1497 and Martin Frobisher in 1576, for England; and Jacques Cartier in 1534 and Samuel de Champlain in 1603, for France. The first permanent European settlements were established by the French at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608, and by the English in Newfoundland, around 1610. European explorers and trappers unwittingly brought diseases that spread rapidly through native trade routes and decimated the Aboriginal population.
For much of the seventeenth century, the English and French colonies in North America were able to develop in relative isolation from each other. French colonists extensively settled the St. Lawrence River valley, while English colonists largely settled in the Thirteen Colonies to the south. However, as competition for territory, naval bases, furs and fish escalated, several wars broke out between the French, the English, and native tribes. The French and Iroquois Wars erupted between the Iroquois Confederation and the Algonquin, with their French allies, over control of the fur trade. A series of four French and Indian Wars were fought between 1689 and 1763; these culminated with a complete British victory in the Seven Years' War. By the terms of Treaty of Paris in 1763, Britain gained control of all of France's North American territory east of the Mississippi River, except for the remote islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Following the war, the British found themselves in possession of a mostly French-speaking, Roman Catholic territory, whose inhabitants had recently taken up arms against Britain. To avert conflict, Britain passed the Quebec Act of 1774, re-establishing the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law in Quebec. The act had unforeseen consequences for Britain, however, as it angered many residents of the Thirteen Colonies, helping to fuel the American Revolution.6 Following the independence of the United States, approximately 50,000 United Empire Loyalists moved to Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.7 As they were unwelcome in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick was carved out of that colony for them in 1784. To accommodate the English-speaking Loyalists in Quebec, the province was divided into francophone Lower Canada and anglophone Upper Canada under the Constitutional Act in 1791.
Notes
1. Hewson, John (2000). The French Language in Canada. Munich, LINCOM Europa, pg. 41.
2. Trigger, Bruce G., Pendergast, James F. (1978). "Saint-Lawrence Iroquoians", Handbook of North American Indians Volume 15. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 357-361. OCLC 58762737.
3. Canadian Heritage (2004-07-16). Origin of the Name - Canada. Canadian Heritage. Retrieved on 2006-10-02.
4. Cinq-Mars, J. (2001). "On the significance of modified mammoth bones from eastern Beringia". The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome. Retrieved on 2006-05-14.
5. Wright, J.V (2001-09-27). A History of the Native People of Canada: Early and Middle Archaic Complexes. Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Retrieved on 2006-05-14.
6. Wars on Our Soil, earliest times to 1885. Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
7. Moore, Christopher (1994). The Loyalist: Revolution Exile Settlement. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-6093-9.
8. David Mills. Durham Report. Historica Foundation of Canada. Retrieved on 2006-05-18.
9. Farthing, John (1957). Freedom Wears a Crown. Toronto: Kingswood House. ASIN B0007JC4G2.
Bibliography
Rayburn, Alan (2001). Naming Canada: Stories of Canadian Place Names, 2nd ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8293-9.
Bothwell, Robert (1996). History of Canada Since 1867. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0-87013-399-3.
Bumsted, J. (2004). History of the Canadian Peoples. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-541688-0.
Conrad, Margarat, Finkel, Alvin (2003). Canada: A National History. Toronto: Longman. ISBN 0-201-73060-X.
Morton, Desmond (2001). A Short History of Canada, 6th ed., Toronto: M & S. ISBN 0-7710-6509-4.
Lamb, W. Kaye (2006). "Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Stewart, Gordon T. (1996). History of Canada Before 1867. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0-87013-398-5.
Friday, December 15, 2006