This is my object

https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4161256

Looking for someone to help me write this (approximately 3,000) word research paper talking about the amulet itself (art), the culture, the history, the versus in the Quran that are written on the manuscript, the religion, magic and spiritual beliefs in Arab countries in the 1800s 

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Paper #3 (Term Paper)

SINQ / Interpreting the Past

University Studies 236A

Winter Quarter, 2020

Paper #3: Research paper

approximately 2,500–4,500 words (=

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0–18 pages in 12-pt type)

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due in printed copy in my box in 117 Cramer by 5pm on Tuesday, March 17.

I cannot accept papers later than 5pm on Friday, March 20, with a late penalty, unless you have made very special arrangements due to duress by 8pm on Sunday, March 15.

Your preliminary list of possible topics is due by email with live links by 8pm Thursday, January 23.

Your research plan for the term paper is to be completed by email with live links by 8pm Thursday, February 6.

If you cannot submit the printed copy of a paper by the time and date given above, please email a copy by the time and date indicated. The time-stamp of the email will guarantee that you submitted the paper on time. Thereafter please leave a print copy for my mailbox in 117 Cramer as soon as possible; the desk attendant there will time-stamp the paper.

Please remember the grading policy:

If you cannot attend the class at which a paper is due, your paper will be considered to have been submitted on time by leaving the printed copy in my box by the end of the indicated class session. If you cannot submit the printed copy of a paper by the time and date given below, please email a copy by the time and date indicated. The time-stamp of the email will guarantee that you submitted the paper on time. Thereafter please leave a print copy in my box as soon as possible.

Saving exceptional circumstances or unless other arrangements have been made, all papers submitted from 1 to 48 hours late will be marked down 10%, all papers submitted up to three (3) days late will be marked down 25%, and no paper will accepted more than three (3) days late. I will consider special arrangements. Please ask for such arrangements no later than 48 hours before any paper is due.

Please observe the requested format:

Please double-space and use just one serif text font (such as Times Roman, Garamond,

Caslon, Baskerville, etc; but not Helvetica, Arial, etc.) in 12-point size. Do not bold any words in the text; and reserve italics for foreign words, titles of books or works of art, to mark the organization of the paper, or to help clarify difficult distinctions. Do not turn on right justification. The pages must be numbered and stapled. Please put your name, the course number, and date in the upper left hand corner of the first page.

Please use Chicago Style for references. Examples of correct format are included at the end of this guideline. PSU subscribes to the Chicago Manual of Style website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/16/contents.html

Another good site for help is:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/

You can also use the automated “Chicago Turabian” references found at the “Citation” button for every book, article, film, etc. in the PSU Library catalog.

Description of the term paper project:

The task for the term paper is to describe and study a primary source as fully as possible by getting to know everything you can find about the physical object, its text and imagery, its history, and its interest. This task requires that you

(1). Clearly and accurately report your observations of the primary source;

(2). Contextualize this source; and

(3). Argue a point of view about the source as either text (or image) or as object by using historical context to organize your observations and using your observations to comment on the historical context.

The paper is not so much a report on the topic of the document (or image or object) from other sources as it is an inquiry into the topic through the document—i.e., use of a primary resource. What does the source tell us about the event, people etc? What information do you glean from it? Where does it fit into what we know of the topic? Also, go to books and peer-reviewed journal articles, and not only to websites, for (a). information or ideas that help you interpret the primary source and (b). context.

This paper need not be strongly thesis-driven. I welcome papers based on a point of view, written in imaginative ways, or resulting in questions rather than answers.

Writing the paper:

Pick a manuscript, printed item, or object from Yale’s digitized collections, chiefly the Beinecke Library, the

Cohen Rare Books collection of the Goldman Law Library

, the Gilman Music Library, the

Cushing/Whitney History of Medicine Library

, the

Divinity Library

, the

Yale University Art Gallery

, the Center for British Art(including its Library), the

Arts of the Book Collection

, the

Haas Arts Library

, the

Peabody Museum of Natural History

, the

Lewis Walpole Library

, the

Yale Numismatic Collection

, the

Collection of Musical Instruments

, the

East Asia Special Collections Library

, the

Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

, and the

Yale University Archives

that is relevant to any field of historical inquiry and that was made at any time whatsoever prior to 1939 in any place whatsoever. It can be an artifact of any field of human endeavor. These collections have posted about two million digitized images of objects they own, representing the culture and history of every part of the world.

To find books and manuscripts, your first stops are:

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections

This is the search page you use for library digital collections:

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Search/Advanced

and for manuscripts and archives across Yale collection this is very fruitful

https://archives.yale.edu/

and

https://web.library.yale.edu/mssa

[Also, this is the guide to the Yale libraries digital collections is helpful:

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/digital-collections-beinecke-library]

A daily glance at the Beinecke twitter will also turn up interesting things:

Tweets by BeineckeLibrary

This page also is helpful for library materials:

http://web.library.yale.edu/help/orbis/specialCollections.html

Here’s a portal to the library’s online exhibits:

http://exhibits.library.yale.edu/exhibits

For museum and other materials as well as library materials:

http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

This site surveys Yale collections:

https://www.yale.edu/research-collections

All the other library and museum collections mentioned above have their own introductory and search pages. These collections include hundreds of thousands of images. Here are some of their individual home pages and search pages:

Cohen Rare Books collection of the Goldman Law Library

https://library.law.yale.edu/rare-books

Gilmore Music Library

https://web.library.yale.edu/music

Cushing/Whitney History of Medicine Library

https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical

Divinity Library

https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity

Yale University Art Gallery

https://artgallery.yale.edu/

Center for British Art (including its Library)

https://britishart.yale.edu/

Arts of the Book Collection

https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/arts-book-collection

Haas Arts Library

https://web.library.yale.edu/arts

Peabody Museum of Natural History

http://peabody.yale.edu/

Lewis Walpole Library

https://walpole.library.yale.edu/

Yale Numismatic Collection

https://artgallery.yale.edu/numismatics

Yale Map Collection

https://web.library.yale.edu/maps

Collection of Musical Instruments

http://collection.yale.edu/

East Asia Special Collections Library

https://web.library.yale.edu/international/east-asia-library

Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

https://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr

Yale University Archives

https://web.library.yale.edu/mssa/collections/university-archives

It’s a very good idea to look in at current exhibits at Beinecke, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale British Art Collection, as anything pictured from any exhibit is also acceptable for your term paper topic. As you search, remember that the image you use must picture an object actually in a Yale retrospective collection.

If topic or field that interests you is not directly represented in these digital collections, look for a suitable object in these collections by considering themes concerning the topic, influences on the object, and the way the object affect others.

Remember that if you choose a manuscript or printed book, you can work on it as a primary documentary source or you can approach it as an object, or both.

Remember that you are looking for books, images, and objects that actually are in Yale collections. Occasionally you will find something that is digitized but to which access is restricted. In this case, contact me.

Carefully observe the object through the images provided. Best begin by setting aside your pre-conceptions and “unlearning” whatever you think about the subject. Maintain a thoroughly open mind to the evidence, and let it lead you.

Following your observations, develop and then state a point of view about an historical event, person, place, idea, artefact, movement, or activity. Your point of view may concern anything from the process of creation, manufacture, or circulation, to the information the text, image, or object gives us on an historical matter, to the means and impact of its diffusion. The point of view states a conclusion or tentative conclusion for which the primary source provides evidence. Defend it by reference to the evidence, and consider other interpretations of the evidence.

It will certainly help you to look at similar objects wherever you find authoritative images of them—on museums and library sites, for instance, or in scholarly publications. I’m glad to suggest some worthwhile collections for you to consult. If you start early enough, you will have time to direct inquiries to curators of these collections.

On sources:

It is most important that you research the topic you are discussing. Internet sources are not sufficient for this purpose. All of you have a 26-million volume library at your disposal via the Summit system. The Library’s Document Delivery system will bring you virtually any journal article not on a database to which the Library subscribes within a very few days. Also, if you start early you will have time to order and receive materials not in Summit through InterLibrary Loan (ILL).

Good research takes time, so plan your research and revision work on a calendar. Find sources you require early in your work, so that you can order books from Summit and ILL when you want them.

Do not cite Wikipedia or other non-academic websites. Doing so will lower your grade. (There are rare exceptions to this rule; ask me for guidance if you believe you wish to use a non-academic source.)

Do consult and cite solely peer-reviewed academic books, journal articles, and dissertations. Doing so will improve your grade.

For the best grade, aim for these results:

thorough description of the object correctly using technical language appropriate to the class of objects to which the topic belongs;

contextualization of the object of study;

close and careful presentation of the information the object conveys—in most cases, the words of the text;

detailed comparison of this information with information from other primary sources;

logical consideration of the possible interpretations of the object of inquiry or results of study of it;

modest and narrow inquiry;

modest and narrow results;

wise use of scholarly secondary and tertiary sources, including scholarly editions of texts, monographs from peer-reviewed presses, and papers from peer-reviewed journals;

a summary of approx. 50–100 words at the head of the text;

sentences that are complete, balanced, and concrete;

well-constructed paragraphs;

fewer rather than more quotes, quoting from secondary sources only when unavoidable;

narrative and argument in your own words from your own point of view;

a methodical structure for the whole paper;

footnotes in Chicago style and bibliography in Chicago style;

do a thorough edit for spelling, grammar, and syntax and for paragraph and paper structure;

and perhaps most importantly:

give yourself time to write a thorough revision, including time to follow through on additional ideas that come to you in the course of research and writing and time to step back from the paper before revising it.

Also:

In some cases an original translation by you from a text in language you know or a transcription of a manuscript text in one of the designated online digitized collections can be substantial portions of the term paper.

In some cases it will be possible to do work replicating an historical craft or practice based on a text in one of the designated online digitized collections as a substantial part of the term paper.

With regard to plagiarism:

There is always an alternative to plagiarism. Talk to me or to others, seeking help and advice. It’s better to turn in a poor paper than to plagiarize. The consequences for you, your academic career, and your life, as well as for your community, your fellow students, and me, are unbearable. Do anything rather than plagiarize.

Please if you have any questions about anything, want research advice, or run into problems, don’t hesitate to email me or to talk to me.

Chicago style citations (as adapted for the term paper in this course)

1. Book—

First mention in a footnote:

Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Twelve Lectures, translated by Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995),128.

Additional mentions in footnotes:

Habermas, Philosophical Discourse, 156.

Bibliography:

Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Twelve Lectures. Translated by Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

2. Article in a book—

First mention in a footnote:

Marian Hobson, “Philosophy and Rococo Style (2002),” in Marian Hobson, Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment, edited and translated by Kate E. Tunstall and Caroline Warman, (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011), 204.

Additional mentions in footnotes:

Hobson, “Philosophy,” in Diderot and Rousseau, ed. Tunstall and Warman, 217.

Bibliography:

Hobson, Marian. “Philosophy and Rococo Style (2002).” In Marian Hobson, Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment, edited and translated by Kate E. Tunstall and Caroline Warman, 203–212 Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011.

3. Article in a journal—

First mention in a footnote:

Peter Fuhring, “The Print Privilege in Eighteenth-Century France I,” The Print Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3 (1985), 174–193.

Additional mentions in footnotes:

Führing, “Print Privilege,” 192

Bibliography:

Führing, Peter. “The Print Privilege in Eighteenth-Century France I.” The Print Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3 (1985): 174–193.

4. Online—

First mention in a footnote:

Morizot, Jacques. “18th Century French Aesthetics,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online).

Additional mentions in footnotes:

Morizot. “18th Century.”

Bibliography:

Morizot, Jacques. “18th Century French Aesthetics,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online at:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-french/

You can also use the automated “Chicago Turabian” references found at the “Citation” button for every book, article, film, etc. in the PSU Library catalog.

Remember: do not cite journal articles located through JStor, Google, or any other database by their JSTor URL, stable URL, DOI, etc. Cite them by author, title, journal information as above, to which you may add stable URL or DOI.