WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 3: CONSULTING REPORT
Essay due: December 19, 2020
Length: 1000-1300 words
A movie production company intends to release a romance set in pre-modern East Asia in which someone from Heian Japan falls in love with someone from the mainland.
To ensure the historical accuracy of the film and prevent outrage on social media, the production company has hired you as a consultant to research how marriage practices in the Heian period differed from marriage on the mainland.
Your job is to write a consultancy report that makes a clear, well-organized, and evidence-based argument about how marriage in Heian Japan did or did not differ from marriage practices on the mainland and why.
RESEARCH
To address this question, you should consult the Mother of Michitsunas Kager Nikki, the Manysh poems, Ban Zhaos Lessons for Women, Mr. Yans Admonitions for his Family, the story-poem A Peacock Southeast Flew, Bai Xingjians fictional short story Li Yahsien (Yaxian), A Loyal Courtesan, Song poems on daily life, the video lectures, and the textbook.
You do not necessarily need to cite all of these sources in your report, but you will need to cite lectures, the coursepack, and the textbook at least once each.
STRUCTURE
Your report needs to include:
1) A title page that includes your name, a title that captures the topic and main point of your report, and the date of submission. [5 points]
2) An introduction that explains the purpose of the report, the main issues to be addressed, and the sources that will be used to analyze the issues. [10 points]
3) A specific, clear, and argumentative thesis statement in the introduction that explains what you intend to argue. [10 points]
4) A background section that briefly discusses the historical context (i.e. the basic organization of Heian society and society on the mainland). [15 points]
5) Sections that address the key issues and include accurate, specific evidence and analysis to support your thesis statement. Each section should have its own topic heading. [15 points]
6) At least one reference each to video lectures and appropriate sections of the textbook and coursepack. [15 points]
Coursepack citation:
Micah Muscolino, East Asia: Great Tradition Reader (UCSD, 2020)
Textbook citation:
Sarah Schneewind, An Outline History of East Asia to 1200 (UCSD, 2020)
Lecture citation
Micah Muscolino,LECTURE TITLE, HILD 10: The Great Tradition Early History and Cultures of China, Korea, and Japan, 1200 BC- AD 1200 (class lecture, UCSD, San Diego, CA, DATE)
7) Clear, grammatical, and accessible writing. [10 points]
8) A cogent and logical flow of information. [10 points]
9) An effective conclusion that summarizes the reports findings and their significance. [10 points]
CITATIONS
All your references should adhere to the American Historical Review (AHR) citation style. The footnote style used by the AHR generally follows conventions recommended by The Chicago Manual of Style. You do not need to include a bibliography.
Placement of Notes. A footnote number should come at the end of a sentence or at least at the end of a clause wherever possible. Footnote numbers always follow quoted or cited material; they should not be placed after authors’ names or other references preceding the cited matter.
Citing Books. The first citation of a book should take the following format:
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge, 1994).
Subsequent citations should take the following format: Weinberg, A World at Arms, 132-33.
Note that only the last name of the author is provided in a subsequent reference, along with a shortened version of the title. The publication information is not repeated. The short title should use words in sequence from the main title only.
Citing Book Chapters/Sections. A book chapter, essay, or book section should take the following format:
John H. Hanson, Islam and African Societies, in Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O’Meara, eds., Africa, 3rd ed. (Bloomington, Ind., 1995), 97-114.
Subsequent citations should take the following format:
Hanson, Islam and African Societies, 98.
Citing Class Lectures. If you are citing a class lecture, include your professor’s name, title of the lecture in quotation marks, the course number and name and the location and date.
Allen Seager, “Women and the Church in New France,” History 204: The Social History of Canada (class lecture, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, January 2011).
If you have any questions about how to cite specific types of sources you can find the answer using the following citation guide.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
FORMATING
Please double-space your written assignment, use a standard 12 point font such as Arial or Times New Roman (i.e. not Comic Sans), and submit it on Canvas as a Word document.
DEADLINE
The written assignment will be due by 11:59pm (San Diego Time) on December 19, 2020.
NOTE FROM ME:
I understand this is difficult because the course pack, textbook and a lecture need to be cited at least once. So please do your own research, and then keep me updated so I can find relevant information that can support your research. That way, we can have the required cited sources. Please keep me updated!
I selected 3 as the sources, but you can use any scholarly source outside of those required sources as well.
If you feel like you want to include any of these:
the Mother of Michitsunas Kager Nikki, the Manysh poems, Ban Zhaos Lessons for Women, Mr. Yans Admonitions for his Family, the story-poem A Peacock Southeast Flew, Bai Xingjians fictional short story Li Yahsien (Yaxian), A Loyal Courtesan, Song poems on daily life, the video lectures, and the textbook.
Let me know and I will send them.
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