The Gettysburg Adress History Essay Research Paper

The Gettysburg adress by Abraham Lincoln

Start typing here. Indent all subsequent paragraphs and use one-inch margins all around and font size 10, 11, or 12 CPI (characters per inch). Trust your eyes. Your font size should be about the size of this text. Also . . . double-space all text. Single space and indent any “block” quotations that are at least five lines long. As a general rule, you should use block quotations sparingly—readers tend to see these things and skip over them. E.g., how many of you bothered to read the rest of this or bothered to note that I just did a cut and paste op to run this block quotation over five lines. Single space and indent any “block” quotations that are at least five lines long. As a general rule, you should use block quotations sparingly—readers tend to see these things and skip over them. E.g., how many of you bothered to read the rest of this or bothered to note that I just did a cut and paste op to run this block quotation over five lines? Single space all notes and bibliography but double space between each individual note and each individual bibliographic citation. Number all pages consecutively, including note and bibliography pages, in the upper-right corner beginning with the number 1. This is not, as they say, rocket science. Just make your project look like this document and you will be fine on matters of form. For help on note and bibliography form, you may purchase from the MATC bookstore or any good bookstore a copy of the MLA style guide or Kate Turabian’s Guide. Since we are in the internet age, you can save money by looking up sample citations on the internet. Here is an example: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/turabian-notes-and-bibliography-citationquick-guide.html 2 MS Word and other computer writing programs will allow you to do either footnotes or endnotes. For simplicity’s sake, we will all be doing footnotes. Here is an example of who footnotes will look like on your pages; this one shows how to cite a book and is taken from my own work.1 Here is an example of a short cut; “ibid.” is a Latin abbreviation meaning “in the same place.”2 Here is another example of how to cite an internet source.3 Here is another example of a short cut.4 And here is an example of what you can do with an “annotated footnote” (if relevant, you may add written material to your notes; thus, we call these “annotated footnotes”).5 Here is an example of a parenthetical note and please be aware that we will NOT be doing parenthetical notes (Smith, 19). This of course would refer to page 19 of a book by a person named “Smith.” By using footnotes instead of parenthetical notes, we will be taking notes out of the text and placing them out of the way at the “foot” (i.e., the bottom) of the page. We will do this so that you have some experience doing footnotes as you are liable to run into a professor down the line who will not accept parenthetical references. When should you use footnotes? Here is a link that explains in plain English: http://www.historyguide.org/guide/footnotes.html To insert footnotes in MS Word, simply click on "references" up top and then click on "insert footnotes." That's it. The software will place and number your footnotes. If you 1 Kenneth O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton (New York: Free Press, 1995), 26-29. 2 Ibid., 87. 3 White House press conf., July 15, 2008, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080715-1.html 4 O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano, 57. 5 Rather than look back to “Shock and Awe,” the Michigan GOP looked ahead to “Sub and Prime” with a plan to use foreclosure lists to prevent those who lost their homes from voting in the November elections. Michigan Messenger, Sept. 28, 2009. 3 have another writing program, just Google "name of your writing program how to insert footnotes." Finally, I have attached a sample bibliography page (scroll down and you will see it). The basic rule is to list each source in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name. Some sources have no author. Just a title. So, list all the sources for which you have an author first and then list all the sources for which you have only a title. List these alphabetically too, based on the first word in the title. 4 Bibliography Bruck, Connie. When Hollywood Had a King. New York: Random House, 2003. Reeves, Richard. President Nixon: Alone in the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Strober, Gerald S. & Deborah H. Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.S. Senate. Select Intelligence Committee. Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments. 109th Cong., 2d sess., 2006. _____. _____. Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. Hearings. 93d Cong., 2d Sess., 1974, Book 1, 123, 157, 229. “Battle for Fallujah,” n.d. [ca. Nov. 2003], http://www.talkingproud.us/Military042805D.html (link inoperative) “Team B.” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 49(April 1993): 22-27. “The Texas Clemency Memos.” Atlantic, July/Aug. 2003, 31-44.