Note:  The schedule is fairly firm but may be altered in minor ways if the need arises as we work through the various stages of research and writing.  

All books are available for purchase at the University Book Store and are on reserve at College Library

Jan. 25

Feb. 1

Reading on 19th-c. capitalism

• Judith McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).

Assignment due

• One paragraph on your topic idea(s) -- give me your best writing!

• Brief oral reports on your current thinking about your research topic and possible sources.

Feb. 8

• David F. Noble, "Social Choice in Machine Design: The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools," in Andrew Zimbalist, ed., Case Studies on the Labor Process (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1979), 18-50.
• Richard Marius, A Short Guide to Writing about History (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989), chapters 1-4.
• Wayne G. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), parts I and II.  If 1there are no more copies in the History 600 section at the University Book Store, ask for it at the counter in the rear of the textbooks floor.

Assignment due

• For all three readings, use the "Reading Questions" handed out in seminar on 2/1 to prepare for discussion (not all will apply to the books by Marius and by Booth et al.)

Feb. 15

• M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, 4th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994).
• Keith Jenkins, On "What Is History?":  From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-42.

Assignment due

• Preliminary statement of your topic following this format (from Booth et al., p. 63):  

  I am writing about . . . ______________ . . . , because I am trying to show you (discover) who/how/why . . .  _______________ . . . in order to explain (understand) how/why . . . ____________________ . . . .  

   

• Include a preliminary bibliography of your best secondary sources (up to five)
• Include a brief bibliography or simply a description of any primary sources that you think you will use. 

Feb. 22

• William Strunk, Jr., and E. G. White, The Elements of
  Style, 3d ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1979).
• Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 5th ed. (or most recent ed.), revised and expanded by Bonnie Birtwistle Honigsblum (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

Assignment due

• Two-page description of your research topic ("statement of topic" -- see Grades).  Include a detailed bibliography of secondary and likely primary sources.  Follow the bibliography format in Turabian.

Mar. 1

• Remainder of Marius, A Short Guide to Writing About History.
• Remainder of Booth et al., The Craft of Research.
• Everyone else's "statement of topic" and bibliography -- available on WebCT (shortly after our Feb. 22 seminar).

Assignment due

• Critique of another student's "statement of topic" (students to be paired in seminar on Feb. 23):  prepare a one-page written critique to turn in and five-minute oral presentation for seminar.

Mar. 8

• Individual meetings with Prof. D., March 5-7
• Continue your research

Assignment due at individual meeting

• Three-page summary of your research findings to date.

Mar. 22

Assignment due

• Preliminary outline of your research paper

Mar. 29

Apr. 5

Assignment due

• Detailed outline (ca. 5 pp.) of your research paper, with revised bibliography

Apr. 12

Apr. 19 

Assignment due

• complete draft of paper (including notes and bibliography)

Apr. 26

May 3

May 10

May 17

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