Essay should be typed and double-spaced. Cite all quotations and paraphrases. Writing is NOT a series of continuous quotations. Make it clear to the reader that you read the text carefully.
Write a thesis statement (central argument) in your introduction, then develop the thesis and provide historical evidence (body of your essay), and end with a closing paragraph.
Use Chicago Manual of Style. Be sure that you can use it correctly!
Richard Graham, Feeding the City: from Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010), 43.
Example, Footnote or End note :
Topic to be analyzed:
Examine the trade practices of those who took part in the markets (that is, existing structure, distribution and sale of foodstuffs) in Salvador by focusing on the various participants, that is, street vendors, grocers, Portuguese merchants, butchers, cattle dealers, freed Africans (men and women), female and male slaves, to name a few.
The practices and actions of all those men and women contributed to the community as a whole, and those interactions became a part of the social order, customs, and conflicts of the time.
Use evidence (support) in Graham’s text.
