Helpful Notes
Below are some links to information helpful to students of history courses. Note that some of them require that you have an Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer in order to open the document. If you don't currently have this program, go to the "Courses" page and download it. It only takes a minute and it's free!
- Bibliography
- When you are asked to develop a research paper, you need to find appropriate, scholarly books and articles on your topic. This guide gives you step-by-step directions for finding books and articles in C.W. Post's library.
- Chicago Style Citation
- For more information on exactly how to use the Chicago citation style in your footnotes/endnotes and in your bibliographies, here are some good web sites:
- Essay Evaluation
- This is a sample of the worksheet I use to evaluate your papers. It shows you the things I'll be looking for. You should be able to use this evaluation to improve your writing.
- Evaluating Web Sites
- The web has a huge amount of material on historical topics. Some of it is accurate, some of it has occasional errors, and some of it is just plain wrong. How can you tell whether information you find on the web is reliable enough to use in your research? This link to the library of Cornell University gives you tips.
- Footnotes/ Endnotes
- Being able to cite material correctly is an important skill. This guideline offers you an overview of how to use footnotes and/or endnotes correctly.
- Primary Sources
- When historians are asked to develop a research paper, they examine the eyewitness accounts and material objects created during the period they are studying. Here are suggestions for how you might locate primary documents in the C.W. Post library.