EAST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tea Ceremony, Tokugawa Shogunate, Edo Period

• School: McGill University
• Department: Asian Language & Literature
• Course: EAST 212
• Professor: Brian Bergstrom

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First short essay: like the last question of the quiz. Support your own thoughts and ideas with primary and secondary sources. Primary source: the pillow book, woodblock prints, movies, images, descriptions of cultural practices. Secondary sources: like the reading for today = a historian talking about another period of time, we can always mine 2ndary sources for 1ry ideas (quotes, etc) Print them and give them to prof == hard copies. Share ideas and make sure your arguments are good. Thesis: last sentence in first paragraph usually, what are you going to prove by writing this. Avoid interesting and unique and nice = first lady words = doesn"t mean anything. Add bibliography at end = use in class sources. Use in text citation and page numbers. Poems, short stories, novellas, titles of chapter are in quotation marks. 5. discussion around ordinary becoming extraordinary through some kind of cultural practice = maybe look at composition of poetry, tea ceremony etc .