For example, if you choose Germany, you could select among a host of issues such as the ghettoization of "guest workers" from Turkey or the prohibition of Nazi symbols like swastikas. ... OTHER ISSUES Footnotes Avoid using them unless absolutely necessary. ...
For example, what does the passage tell us about antebellum ideas about life as a slave, citizenship, literacy, religious practice, etc.? ... For example, the following sentence does not have to be cited: "In his own lifetime, Frederick Douglass became one of the most preeminent abolitionists in the U.S." But if you use a specific idea (for example, an interpretation of a particular historian) or quotation from the textbook or another source, please provide a citation after the quote/idea. ... For web sources and print sources that are not in the Brinkley or Douglass texts, I would ...
This essay's topic, for example, is essay writing. ... Milton is too easy for this, but Irving Layton provides a good example: And me happiest when I compose poems. ... ("The Birth of Tragedy" 1-5, 9-11) The sets of bracketed spaced periods in these examples represent ellipses--portions of the text that I did not include in my quotation. The first two ellipses in the Milton example (three spaced periods) let my reader know that I have omitted a word or words from that sentence. ... In other words, no footnotes! ...
