Sources for Western Society Society, Volume II, “From the Ages of Exploration to the Present.
ISBN 978-1-4576-1520-7
Please write a journal entry for Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22.
Each should be 2 paragraphs minimum. Please label each chapter above the paragraphs. I have attached the instructions. These should not be summaries. The work cited page can be on one page but separate for 16, 17, 18 and 19, 20, 21, & 22.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Journals and how to do them well…
Approach
The journal assignment should be written after you have read each chapter in the secondary textbook. That is the textbook which gives you the narrative or “story” of events. You do not need to write a journal for any primary documents book used in HIST 102WA, or the additional text used in HIST 241WA. The journal assignment is only used for the secondary, narrative texts in a course. Check with me if you do not understand.
You may use the first person (“I”) when writing the journal. You may not use the first person (“I”) when writing term papers, chapter summaries, comparison papers or final exams. Avoid saying that something is “interesting” in your journal entry. I know that you find it interesting if you have chosen to comment on it.Do not write a mini chapter summary. The journal entry may be between half a page (two paragraphs minimum) and one and a half pages. No less and in general no more. If you are doing a course with chapter summaries, you still have to write a journal entry on any chapters you might choose to summarize in your own words.
Keep it specific. The most helpful journal entries are ones in which you have fully explained the time period and the historical figures/ concepts/ events involved, and then explained your own thoughts/ reactions/ recognition of a modern day analogy or parallel. Vague writing is not helpful, especially if you want to remember something about this time period later on after you have completed the course.
Although you may use the first person in your writing, keep the writing itself of a high standard, avoiding colloquial phrases and idioms. Write in complete and grammatically correct sentences. They do not have to be long or complicated sentences in order to clearly express a valid point or idea.