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Secondary Library: Tokugawa Shogunate Decline

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Tokugawa Decline - Primary Source

Excerpts from Shinron (New Theses): "The Barbarians' Nature" 

• A man named Aizawa wrote a book called Shinron about spies from Western ships coming to Japan.

• Aizawa believed Japan needed a plan to deal with these spies and protect itself.

• He thought foreigners might not follow Japan's laws and disrupt the transportation system.

 

• 一个名叫相泽的人写了一本名为《新论》的书,讲述西方船只的间谍来到日本的故事。
• 相泽认为日本需要制定计划来对付这些间谍并保护自己。
• 他认为外国人可能不遵守日本的法律并扰乱交通系统。

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Research Tips

Consider alternative terms like the Edo Period.

Consider people who were involved in the decline, search their names.

Consider other factors that may be at play, search those,

  • class system changes, influence from outside nations like the United States and the Netherlands, issues with the feudal system

Consider the Meiji Restoration which follows the decline of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Primary Source documents in JSTOR can be searched by date!

Some tips for researching on a database:

  • Use a * for a "wild card," this will let you search 1 time for a stem word and get all of the results for words that have different endings but the same stem. For example: contract* - searches any term that begins with “contract” (such as “contract”, “contracted”, or “contracts”).
  • Putting words or phrased in "quotation marks" will tell the search engine you want that specific phrase ONLY, no other combination of those words
  • Using our BOOLEAN OPERATORS can give us more or less specific results
    • keyboard NOT piano = only results about keyboards that are not for a piano (like keyboard for a computer)Boolean Operators - English - LibGuides at Slippery Rock University
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  • Add a ~ before a word to include synonyms
    • ~joseon dynasty
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    • You can also do the same thing with the TYPE of site, for example .gov, .org, .edu which are more authoritative sites that just .com
    • ex. site:.edu space race    or     site:.gov space race
  • You can use our same BOOLEAN OPERATORS from before on most search engines as well.

When writing your research paper you will use In-text Citations, also called Parenthetical Citations(括号内的引文). They called that because they are in parenthesis (). You can find more information in the Purdue OWL, and Mr. Healy will be teaching you a lesson about it too.

When we write papers, it's important to give credit to the people who wrote the things we read. This is called MLA style. We have to be careful not to copy someone else's work without giving them credit. We can do this by putting their name and where we found the information in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Sometimes, we can put the information somewhere else in the sentence, there will be examples below. It's also important to make sure that the information we put in our paper matches what we put on the Works Cited page.

MLA format helps us give credit to authors and show where the information came from. In our writing, we have to put the author's last name and the page number in parentheses. We also have to make a list of all the books and articles we used at the end of our writing. The author's name can be in the sentence or in parentheses after the quote or idea, but the page number always goes in parentheses. If we want to know more about the book, we can look at the "Works Cited" or "Bibliography" list at the end. It will tell us the author's full name and the name of the book.

当我们写论文时,向撰写我们所读内容的人表示感谢非常重要。这称为 MLA 风格。我们必须小心,不要在没有注明出处的情况下抄袭别人的作品。我们可以通过将他们的名字和我们在句子末尾的括号中找到信息的位置来做到这一点。有时,我们可以把信息放在句子的其他地方,下面会有例子。确保我们在论文中输入的信息与我们在“引用的作品”页面上输入的信息相匹配也很重要。

MLA 格式帮助我们给予作者荣誉并显示信息的来源。在我们的写作中,我们必须将作者的姓氏和页码放在括号中。我们还必须在写作结束时列出我们使用的所有书籍和文章的清单。作者姓名可以出现在句子中,也可以出现在引用或想法后面的括号中,但页码始终位于括号中。如果我们想了解更多关于这本书的信息,我们可以查看最后的“被引作品”或“参考书目”列表。它会告诉我们作者的全名和书名。

Examples:

Quotations:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Paraphrased:

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

If there is no known author you can put the title of the work, in quotations, in place of the Author's family name: ("Title")

Annotated Bibliography

Students will complete an annotated bibliography (带注释的参考书目) about

  • 1 Primary Source (主要资源) from Mr. Singleton
  • 3 Secondary Sources (次要来源) that you find

You will annotate them according to this website: Purdue OWL

An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that you use when you research a topic. It can be books, websites, journals, or other things. Each source in the bibliography has a summary or evaluation called an annotation. The annotation can summarize what the source is about, assess its usefulness, and reflect on how it fits into your research. An annotated bibliography can help you learn about your topic, come up with a main idea for your research, and see what other researchers have said about the topic. The format of an annotated bibliography can vary, but it usually includes bibliographic information and annotations written in paragraphs.

带注释的参考书目是您研究某个主题时使用的资源列表。它可以是书籍、网站、期刊或其他东西。参考书目中的每个来源都有一个摘要或评估,称为注释。注释可以总结来源的内容,评估其有用性,并反思它如何适合您的研究。带注释的参考书目可以帮助您了解您的主题,提出研究的主要想法,并了解其他研究人员对此主题的看法。带注释的参考书目的格式可能有所不同,但通常包括以段落形式编写的参考书目信息和注释。

Your annotations will include:

  • summary (总结报告) of the article
    • Here you will paraphrase (释义) the source, Mr. Healy will discuss this more with you in class.
  • You will assess (评估) how useful the article is, how relevant (相关的) is it?
  • You will reflect on (思考) how it will fit into your research. Has it changed how you think about your topic? How will it shape (形状) your argument?

Final Tips

Don't forget to check your class pages and the shared project page on Teams regularly for updates.

Please see Mr. Healy, Ms. Haeshin, Mr. Singleton, or Ms. Kylee if you need help, we are all here to support you!