Primary Source Compare/Contrast Paper

PAPER TOPIC: Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationships (FROM PAGE 39 OF TEXTBOOK)

TEXTBOOK: Bentley, Jerry H. Herbert F. Ziegler, and Heather Streets Salter, eds. Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Combined Volume. 6th Edition. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2015. ISBN: 9780073407029.

This assignment had 4 different parts to it, but I HAVE COMPLETED ASSIGNEMENT 1-3 ALREADY. I JUST CURRENTLY NEED PART 4(ASSIGMENT 4) COMPLETED AND TURNED IN BY OR ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018.

Assignment #4, Final Paper: You will explain what your “Source from the Past” says and who the author is. You will then use the scholarly history source that you chose to describe the event and how the information in your Source from the Past is similar to or different from the facts on the same topic in your scholarly history source. Complete technical requirements are found below.To help organize your paper, I have included a sample outline at the end of these instructions.DUE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

SAMPLE OUTLINE:

Sample Paper Outline: To help you organize your thoughts, below is a sample outline of how you might organize your paper. In the body of the paper, you can have more than the two or three paragraphs listed below if you have lots of information. Be sure you give concrete examples and quotes from your Source from the Past and your scholarly source to back up all your claims.

Introduction: Introduce your document and the historical period during which it was written, give general historical background about the document or the event that it describes, and state your thesis (i.e. what is the purpose of your paper and what is the most important finding when comparing your Source from the Past and your scholarly source. This can be as simple as “The document, ‘Trip to India’ and Bob Smith’s book on India both describe the importance of local governors, but disagree on how those governors took power.”). You should also make some attempt to state how well the contents of your primary source document agree or disagree with the historical information contained in your scholarly source. The point is, whatever you express to your reader, state it firmly and with conviction (no wishy-washy statements).

Body: Paragraph 1 – Summarize the content of the document, tell me what it says. Discuss who wrote it, when it was written, why the author might have written it. Be sure to give concrete examples from the document to back up all your assertions.

Paragraph 2 – Compare the document with your outside history source. How does the document agree with your history source? Do they contain similar information? Are these similarities important or are they just superficial? (ex. Saying that both sources discuss China is very superficial, while stating that both sources agree that the Mongol invasion destroyed China’s government and led to famine, is important.) (While you should introduce the title of your sources and by whom they were written, one thing to avoid is giving detailed publication information for either your source from the past or the scholarly history source.This includes statements like “The scholarly book Columbus was published in 1963 by University of Chicago Press.”This is in your bibliography, so is unnecessary in the body of your paper, unless directly relevant to your argument.)

Paragraph 3 – Contrast the Source from the Past with your outside history source. How is it different from your history source? Are the differences important or are they just superficial? (ex. stating that the sources spell something differently is a superficial difference, but if your Source from the Past claims that the Polish started WWII and your scholarly source says the Germans started it, that is a very important difference.)Do you believe these differences make the Source from the Past unreliable or not? Why might this matter? (i.e. if the Source from the Past is accurate, then it matters because it gives an accurate account of events in the past…or if it is inaccurate, then it might matter because it is an example of false information being circulated at that time [especially if it is the only account that gives inaccurate information].)

Conclusion: Summarize your best arguments and best evidence from the rest of your paper. Restate your thesis. No new information should be introduced here. If it is not somewhere else earlier in your paper, it should not be in your conclusion.

ATTATCHMENTS BELOW:

MY Paper Scholarly Source (FROM ASSIGMENT #2: DONE)

• MY CHOSEN “Source from the Past” from textbook which that is analyzed for my Primary Source Compare/Contrast Paper
• Instructions on Primary Compare Source and Contrast Paper (MUST READ)
• Check List for Primary Source Compare and Contrast Paper
• Paper Grading Sheet
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST PAPER EXAMPLE