Essay should be typed and double-spaced.  Cite all quotations and paraphrases.  Writing is NOT a series of continuous quotations.  Make it clear to the reader that you read the text carefully.

 

Write a thesis statement (central argument) in your introduction, then develop your argument and provide historical evidence (body of your essay), and ending paragraph.

 

Use Chicago Manual of Style.

 

Example, Footnote or End note[1]:

 

Edwin Williamson, the Penguin History of Latin America (London: Penguin Books, 2009), 124.

 

Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, “Introduction” by R. C. Padden, editor, Tales of Potosí, (Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1975), xxv.

 

 

Topic to be analyzed:

Examine the role of markets (i.e., the creation of places of trade) and commerce during the colonial administration of Spanish America.  Include the participation of natives of the central valley of Mexico (Viceroyalty of New Spain) and the Andes (Viceroyalty of Peru) in the context of markets and commercial exchanges.

 

 

 

Refer to Williamson (Penguin History of Latin America) and R. C. Padden’s “Introduction” (Tales of Potosí)[2] to support your statements.

 

 

 

[1] Edwin Williamson, the Penguin History of Latin America (London: Penguin Books, 2009), 124.

[2] Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, “Introduction” by R. C. Padden, editor, Tales of Potosí, (Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1975), xxv.