HIST 152: Overview
A guide to help students in History 152.
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Final Project Assistance
- Citation GeneratorCitation Machine can help you prepare your bibliography in Chicago format.
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Research Basics
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Research is a process. It can take more time and effort than simply plugging a few keywords into Google and taking the top three hits.
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Writing Advice and Hints
- How Do I Write a History Paper?Advice for putting getting started on a History paper covering selecting a topic and conducting preliminary research.
Annotated Bibliography
- What is an Annotated Bibliography?From Cornell University, this quick guide offers defining characteristics of an annotated bib. as well as its difference with an abstract.
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography (Skidmore College)Includes sections on elements, structure and examples of writing an annotated bibliographies.
- Citation Quick Guide - Notes and Bibliography: Sample CitationsExample citations for the notes and bibliography style. Sample notes show full citations followed by shortened forms that would be used after the first citation. Sample bibliography entries follow the notes.
- OWL Purdue - Chicago Manual of StyleIncludes general information about Chicago style as well as examples of citations for various source formats (e.g. book, article, web source, etc.) and a sample paper in Chicago style.