PART ONE: CITATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This portion of the assignment allows you to describe certain physical parts of the book and cite it properly. Answer the following questions and perform the following:
1.Type out a bibliographical citation for your book using the form outlined in Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers. The form must be precisely correct.
2. What is the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) of your book? (look at the back cover of the back of the title page.)
3. Does it have an index? Is the index slightly or extensively cross-referenced or is it not cross-referenced at all?
4. Is there a bibliography? Does it include secondary sources (other scholarly books and articles)? Does it annotate or comment on them?
5. Since your chosen book must have footnotes or endnotes, approximately what percentage of the sources the author cites in the notes are primary? What percentage are secondary? (Sample 30 notes taken on random pages ending in the page number xx5.) Did your author consult archives or depend entirely on printed works in a library?
5. Who read all or part of the book prior to its publication to check it for mistakes? What organization if any supported the author with money to do the research and/or writing of the book?
PART TWO: ARGUMENTS
This part is the most involved. It requires a thorough reading of the book. It demands that you comprehend your author's "arguments." Historians use that word to mean the author's interpretation, the case that is being made about the subject.
When historians confront evidence, whether it's a large number of printed sources or archival records, they must try to make sense of those sources. The "sense" they make is their interpretation. The purpose of their monographs is to present their evidence and "argue" their interpretationof that evidence.
Your purpose in this section is to summarize the arguments of the author of your book and indicate some of the evidence used to support those interpretations.
Write three sentences--and only three--on each chapter of the book. Begin all of your sentences as follows:
1. For the first sentence on each chapter, begin with the words, "The main subject of this chapter is" but do not include any words from the chapter title in your description.
2. For the second sentence of each chapter, begin with the words, "The author argues in this chapter that."
3. For the third sentence of each chapter, begin with the words, "A specific piece of evidence that the author uses to support his/her case is." List only ONE piece of relevant evidence. After you have written a trio of sentences for each chapter, write one single five-sentence
paragraph at the end of this entire section of your paper summarizing the author's argument as a whole about the subject of the book.
Attachment:- Book Dissection Exercise.rar