Welcome Students!
This guide was designed to demonstrate the varied types of sources you might access for your research homework assignments for Professor Williams's Modern Latin America course.
Homework Parts 1-4
Due December 22, 2022:
Select a topic or area of interest from your course textbook. At this stage, it could also be a concept from your syllabus readings:
2.) Write a summary on the topic from your textbook.
3.) From Jules Benjamin's or other work, write a description of how students and research scholars conduct research. Be sure to identify the steps to conducting research.
MLA 9th Ed. Citations for your works:
Teresa A. Meade. A History of Modern Latin America 1800 to the Present. 2010.
Benjamin, Jules. A Student's Guide to History, 12th Edition. 2013.
II. Use the Library's catalog and database to find 4 sources relevant to your topic. Cite them as above in MLA 8th ed. format.
III. Expand your research to the Internet.
IV. Key to Research and Citing MLA Format.
Jules Benjamin's A Student's Guide to History guides students through the writing process--from formulating a research question, common methods of research in the field of history, and managing and using sources.
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until today.