Guide for all essays: Your essay should briefly state a problem or question in the introductory paragraph, suggest possible answers, and then prove how one answer in most valid. Use the documents in collections edited by Kishlansky or Andrea as evidence to prove your point. Use relevant quotes. Be sure to explain how a quote fits your argument. Either footnotes or parenthetical references must follow quotes or paraphrases. An example of how a reference should be placed in the text is: "I thinke that the poorest hee that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest hee" (Col. Rainborow in "The Putney Debates," Kishlansky, Sources, p 14). Note: plagiarism is the use of phrases or wholesale ideas from other writers, whether your peers or scholars, without proper acknowledgement in a citation. Plagiarism is cause for failing the class and judicial action.
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