{"id":23702,"date":"2024-04-30T20:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/in-what-ways-did-the-sharing-of-navigational-skills-and-technology-between-the-pacific-islands-and-major-nations-during-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-shape-their-cultural-and-political-settings\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:42:27","slug":"in-what-ways-did-the-sharing-of-navigational-skills-and-technology-between-the-pacific-islands-and-major-nations-during-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-shape-their-cultural-and-political-settings","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/in-what-ways-did-the-sharing-of-navigational-skills-and-technology-between-the-pacific-islands-and-major-nations-during-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-shape-their-cultural-and-political-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In what ways did the sharing of navigational skills and technology between the Pacific islands and major nations during the 18th and 19th centuries shape their cultural and political settings?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin: -20px -10px; font-size: 12.8px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px -1px; padding: 20px 30px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Successful papers<\/strong>&nbsp;(<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">earning 5 points<\/strong>) will do the following:<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Introduction<\/strong>: raises a dilemma, sets out stakes, identifies what other historians have argued, lays out clear argument, tells reader a bit about how will go about demonstrating that argument.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Writing<\/strong>: clear writing, few to no grammar, spelling, or usage mistakes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -uses proper (consistent) footnotes\/citation (preferably Chicago Manual of Style).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Sources<\/strong>: Employs a range of primary sources (publicly available online documents, newspaper articles, photos, etc.) and not just one kind (say, nothing but documents from FRUS).<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -utilizes at several secondary sources (article or book) about your topic.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Citation &#8211; your paper must cite sources for any quotes, analysis, facts that you borrow from another author. Please use footnotes and Chicago Manual of Style for your citations:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/guides.lib.uconn.edu\/citationguides\/chicago.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Bibliography:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>Will offer a bibliography of all sources used<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">PLUS links<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>to the UConn Library Catalog, Jstor or other database link for that source.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Plagiarism<\/strong>&#8211; if you have questions about what constitutes plagiarism read here:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/www.historians.org\/teaching-and-learning\/teaching-resources-for-historians\/plagiarism-curricular-materials-for-history-instructors\/defining-plagiarism<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Argument\/Narrative<\/strong>: Successful papers will make a clear arguments about the roots, meaning, or dynamics of the topics they focus on. They will do more than simply narrate a series of events or provide a series of statements of fact (premises). Rather, they will ask who, what, when, how, why questions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Above Average papers<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>(earning 4 pts) will do most of the above things, but will display one or more of the following:<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; be marked by writing, usage, or grammar errors<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&#8211; have an introduction which misses one or more of the components outlined above; may lack a clear argument for which the intellectual stakes of the paper are spelled out.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&#8211; employ a limited number of sources, or be heavily reliant on a single source<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&#8211; be marked by inconsistent or inadequate citation<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&#8211; a narrative which does not interpret events, but merely provides a blow by blow account of events<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Poor papers<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(earning 3 points or less)<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>will do few of the things successful papers do, and display several of the deficiencies outlined above: poor writing; poor citation; lack of sufficient sources, an introduction missing several components; lack of argument or clear narrative; apparent use of Chat GPT or other AI software<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px -1px; padding: 20px 30px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">For your class project you will choose a topic of your own design and develop a historical argument about it, using primary (where available) and secondary sources, writing about 2500 words. There are no topic restrictions, as long as you can analyze change over time. You might choose a particular place, an exchange, a flow or circulation, an encounter, the environment and\/or non-human actors. 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