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History Question

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Remember that late passes CANNOT be used on your final research paper. It MUST be turned in on time.

Be sure that your final draft contains footnotes and a bibliography. The final draft will be graded on the following:

  • Clear, Strong Thesis
    • Does your thesis clearly state your position on the issue?
    • Is your thesis arguable?
    • Is your thesis specific?
  • Use of Appropriate Sources
    • Does your paper include primary sources?
    • Does your paper include scholarly secondary sources?
    • Does your paper avoid usage of tertiary sources such as Wikipedia, history.com, etc.?
  • Adequate Primary and Secondary Support (Evidence) for Thesis
    • Do you back up all of your assertions with specific, verifiable evidence?
    • Is your paper your own original research, written in your own words?
  • Historical and Factual Accuracy
    • Are there factual errors in your paper?
    • Is your chronology of events correct?
  • Organization, Clarity and Tone
    • Is the organization of the paper clear and logical?
    • Is the tone of the paper academic and professional?
    • Is the tone of the paper natural and human, rather than robotic?
  • Citations
    • Do you adequately cite all of the sources of all of your evidence, including both primary and secondary sources?
    • Are your citations properly formatted Chicago Style footnotes?
    • Does your paper include a properly formatted bibliography which lists all of your sources?
  • Mechanics
    • Is your paper between ten and twelve pages long?
    • Is your paper formatted according to the requirements described in the class syallabus?
    • Do you use proper grammar, spelling and syntax?
    • Is your paper in the correct format?
    • Is your paper neat?

please make sure that the paper is 10-12 pages long and it is double spaced. I have include the rough draft below with the professors notes. please review her notes and make those changes. the pages you add on to the rough draft should be about the history of california silicon valley tech industry in the past.

FIXES NEED TO ADD TO THE ROUGH DRAFT:

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This is progress on your project. However, so far, your paper does not really have a strong thesis, and you need more of a historical perspective. Silicon Valley was around for a long time before artificial intelligence and startups. You will need to go back in time to the origins of the Valley, and trace the evolution of its development.

This paper is very focused on recent events; remember that this is a history class.

Remember that your final draft must contain:

-- A clear thesis statement and argument

-- Primary and scholarly source evidence to support that argument

-- Footnotes for all of your evidence, both quotes and paraphrases

--- A properly formatted bibliography. (needs to be single spaced for Chicago)

The final paper should be 10-12 pages long.

the ROUGH DRAFT is attached.

Acceptable Sources

For this paper, you will need at least six sources. Three of these should be primary sources and three should be scholarly secondary sources. How can you find these sources?

Primary sources are sources that were created by people who witnessed or participated in the historical events you are writing about. Primary sources can be found in books, in archives, and in databases available through our college library. For a historical paper, primary sources are usually speeches, laws, diaries, letters or other written documents. However, they can also include visual art, oral interviews, and other non-written sources. There are also great archives of primary and secondary sources online; however, before using an online archive or website, make sure that it is maintained by a reputable institution or scholar. During the semester, we will be discussing how to find, search, and evaluate online archives.

Scholarly secondary sources are sources written by experts. These experts did not participate in the historical events under discussion, but their analysis of those events should be grounded in the primary sources. These are best found by visiting the library or through searching our library databases. A scholarly secondary source is a source that is written by a professional historian or academics. Scholarly works have been through the peer review process. This means that before being published, they have been read and criticized by multiple professional scholars. This process is intended to ensure the accuracy of the research.

Generally speaking, there are two types of scholarly secondary sources that you might use in a research paper. The first is books. A scholarly book represents many years of research on the part of its author. A book on your topic will provide you with an overview of the subject, and also give you deep analysis of the topic.

You may also want to use journal articles. These are shorter works published in academic journals. They are usually more narrowly focused than books.

Your secondary sources must be scholarly. Tertiary sources such as Wikipedia, Study.com, About.com, The History Channel, random YouTube videos, etc. may be informative and can be useful for gaining an overview of your topic. However, they are not peer reviewed scholarly sources and cannotbe used as sources for the final paper.

The texts and primary source readings from the class can also be used for your paper, as can the class lectures or videos.

How To Find Sources

Most students begin their search for sources on Google, which is a TERRIBLE place to conduct serious research. Google is great for many purposes, but for a serious, deep look at a topic, it is not the best place to start.

Why? Google’s search algorithm returns results that are popular and recent. Google does not use “accuracy” as a criteria, simply because it can’t. Things like reliability and truthfulness are not qualities that an algorithm can determine – for that, human judgement (your judgement) is required. Typically, if you search a topic on Google, you will get literally thousands of results, and only a small fraction of those will link to a site that is scholarly or peer-reviewed. Also, some people publish false or poorly researched material on the internet, for a variety of reasons. It can take a great deal of time and effort to determine if a particular website is accurate or not.

Sometimes, students use Google Scholar. Scholar searches sites that publish peer-reviewed material, so you will generally get results that are reliable. However, these results are undifferentiated by topic – Google only searches for keywords. So again, you may get thousands of results, but only a small fraction will be related to your particular topic.

Recently, many students have begun to use generative AI chatbots to search for sources. However, like Google, AI-powered chatbots have no way to evaluate for accuracy. These chatbots were trained by scraping the internet – including both the accurate and the inaccurate information. So, without further research, there is no way to know whether or not the results the chatbot is giving you are accurate. AI is also known to “hallucinate” – to simply make up information. Often this includes making up fake books and fake journals.

In the future there may be AI-powered search engines that can produce credible search results, but that technology does not yet exist.

So, where you should search for information? The best place to begin your research for this paper is the college library. Our library has books (both physical books and ebooks) on most of the topics students research for this class. Our library also pays for access to dozens of curated databases that contain primary and secondary sources. Finally, the library has reference librarians, whose job it is to help you with your research. We will learn more about using the library to find books and use research databases later in the semester.

Here are some other resources that might prove useful: