Assignment: Following the guidelines listed below, write a paper on the topic I have assigned to you.
 

Paper Topics
    1. Compare and contrast the causes of the three major slave wars.

    2. Compare and contrast the Roman response to each of the three major slave wars.

    3. Discuss the various reasons that all three slave wars ultimately failed.

    4. Discuss the role of religion in slave rebellions during the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE (including the three major slave wars).
 

Guidelines
    1. Source for your paper: use ONLY the book by Brent Shaw (Spartacus and the Slave Wars)

    2. Type of paper: your paper must have an argument or thesis that addresses the topic assigned to you.
        You should indicate this argument/thesis in the first paragraph of your paper.  You must then prove your
        argument by citing evidence from the Shaw book. You may cite from the introduction (Part I) and as many
        documents (Part II) as you like.  You must, however, cite AT LEAST TWO documents from Part II of the book.

    3. Form of Citation: you must cite all information you get from the Shaw book by listing the page number from
        which you got the information in parentheses at the end of the appropriate sentence or paragraph.  If you are
        taking information from the book word-for-word, then you must enclose that information in quotation marks.
        If fail to do either of these things, you are plagiarizing.  See item #10 below.

    4. Overuse of quotations: as noted in #3, you may use quotations from the Shaw book to support your argument.
        You may not, however, simply pack your paper with quotations to fill up space.  If over half of your paper is
        composed of quotations, then it is not really YOUR paper.  It is Shaw's paper.  Basically, he wrote most of your
        paper for you. This is unacceptable and you will receive a failing grade for the paper.

    5. Title Page: this is unnecessary. Simply put your name and date in one of the upper corners of the first page of
        your paper and begin typing below that.  If want to give your paper a title, you should simply place it between
        your name/date and the first paragraph of your paper.

    6. Length of paper: 3-4 pages

    7. Format of paper: Typed and double-spaced

    8. When to turn in the paper: papers must be turned in at the beginning of the class for which they are assigned.

    9. Late papers: these will only be accepted for really good reasons AND your grade will decrease one full letter grade
        for each day that it is late

    10. As indicated on the syllabus, plagiarism will not be tolerated.  If you plagiarize, you will be referred to the Dean of
            Humanities and Social Science for disciplinary action.  Such action will likely include failing the course.
                    - You are plagiarizing someone else's work (book, journal, newspaper, magazine, webpage, etc.) when you
                    take FOUR or more words in a row of their work and put it into your work without enclosing it in quotation
                    marks and citing it (i.e., telling me where you got it).
 
 
 

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