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Final Project
Specifications:
All final
projects should be submitted by Dec. 11.
I will then go over them and send them back for corrections if
necessary. These corrections will
be due on Friday, Dec. 16th.
For those in a
group, please submit all work in one lump if at all possible. Please do not submit it in parts. Somebody in the group needs to organize
all the material and make a coversheet that records each participant in the
group. Group projects will be graded as a group. Everybody will get the same grade in a group, so be diligent
in getting stragglers in line. I
suggest you send the final submission around to every group member for their
final input.
Project format:
1) Abstract: A paragraph or so. Briefly describe the project.
1.1) List of members and their roles in
the project. [This isn't necessary
for people working solo.]
2) The project. This may be in multiple parts or one lump. It is up to you to decide how to
present this. If you are building
or experimenting or collecting data or writing a story, I would like to hear
about the process and how it went in some detail. The final product should look professional.
3) A brief postscript that ties the whole
project together, especially if your project had multiple elements. There needs to be some sort of summary
of what you did, and how it is in some way historical or illuminating to
history.
4) Annotated Bibliography. This needs to be a collected bibliography
for the whole project, meaning that if you are a group, you need to collate
your bibliographical materials into one place and cite them accordingly. All projects must have at least as many real sources as there are
people in the group, if not more. A credible source is a scholarly book or article from a
journal. Wikipedia should not be
part of the bibliography, but you are free to use Wikipedia to track down credible
sources. That's fine. Cite all sources and annotate each one
with one or two sentences describing the nature of the material.
These projects should be interesting.
JSTOR at
Stevens: JSTOR
[arts and sciences] --- then
log in with your "Pipeline" information.
The following
are the resource collections and bibliographies for the projects from
HoST-Fall-2011. For some of these,
I've added some suggestions and advice for how to make your projects more
historical or interesting or both.
These are not in
any way complete, nor do you have to read each and every one, but you should
all look over this material and get some ideas about what has been done in the
past and what you are going to do with it yourselves. For many of you, these resources will be very helpful. I expect that all of you will use at
least some of these.
Trebuchets/Catapults-
John Moorehead: Catapults-Trebuchets-Bib.htm
Firearms-History-
Chris-Richard: Firearms-History-Bib.htm
Hieroglyphics-
Joshua: RosettaStoneBib.htm
Lye-Soap-Bathing-
Anthonio- Kathleen-Liz-Michael: Soap-Lye-Bathing-Bib.htm
WaterPumping-
Ross-Tiffany-Zak: Waterwheels-bib.htm
Wheel-
Brianna-Theresa: Wheel_History-Bib.htm
Humors-
Bryan-Eliseo-Jaime: Humors-bib.htm
CosmosHistory-
Jim: Cosmic_Theories_Bib.htm
KeplerPlatonicSolids-
Tim: Kepler-PlatonicSolidCosmos-bib.htm
Patronage-
Michael: Patronage-Galileo-bib.htm