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| 11 | <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4"><B>Are you conducting research for a paper/project?</B></font><font color="#FFFFFF"></p>
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| 12 | </font>
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| 13 | <blockquote>
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| 14 | <p><font face="Arial">Conducting research for a paper or project can be a rewarding
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| 15 | academic experiment. It's a bit like detective work - your teacher or
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| 16 | professor tells you to write about a subject, and off you go.... You
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| 17 | have to wade through tons of information, and then - out of thousands of words
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| 18 | - decide what to include in your paper or project. It can be
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| 19 | frustrating, and sometimes boring, but you're guaranteed to learn (and that
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| 20 | is, after all, the ultimate goal of education.) </font></p>
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| 21 | <P><font face="Arial"><B>The first step</B> is the most obvious - <B>choosing a topic</B>.
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| 22 | Choose something which interests you! Research can be fun if you're
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| 23 | actually interested in the topic. But if you're not, it can be boring
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| 24 | and frustrating. <BR>Now quite often you can't choose your topic. But
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| 25 | even if you don't have a choice, the right attitude is important. Don't
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| 26 | look at the research as a chore - look at it as an opportunity to learn new
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| 27 | things which may be useful to you one day. Who knows? The love of
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| 28 | your life might turn out to be a Tudor fanatic. </font>
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| 29 | <P><font face="Arial">Once you're topic has been chosen, you're ready for <B>step two</B> -
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| 30 | <B>background reading</B>! <BR>Read a general introduction to your topic,
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| 31 | either in your textbook or an encyclopedia. This will only take a little
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| 32 | while, and it's invaluable. <BR>After all, if you're doing a paper on Henry
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| 33 | VIII, it helps to have read a brief biography of his life. Then, while
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| 34 | you're doing more specialized research, you can place the research in its
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| 35 | proper context. <BR>If you want to do further reading on Tudor history, please
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| 36 | visit the <A href="biblio.html">Tudor
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| 37 | Bibliography</A>. It's a list of the works I used to create this site.</font><P>
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| 38 | <font face="Arial">Background research leads to <B>step three</B> - <B>narrow your topic to
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| 39 | acceptable limits</B>. <BR>If you only have to write a 3-5 page paper, don't
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| 40 | choose something like the Reformation. Instead, choose a particular
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| 41 | aspect of the Reformation. A good idea is to do background reading, and
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| 42 | write down some 'key words'. Perhaps one of the 'key words' will become
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| 43 | your final topic. <BR>Another idea is to use the 'key words' to make questions
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| 44 | or statements. If you're writing about the Reformation in England, you
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| 45 | could write the following - The Reformation in England was different than the
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| 46 | Reformation in Germany. Or, Was the Reformation in England different
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| 47 | than the Reformation in Germany? <BR>Answering such questions, or finding
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| 48 | support for the statements, can guide your research. Create as many
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| 49 | questions and statements as you need. </font>
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| 50 | <P><font face="Arial">Once you have narrowed your topic, move on to <B>step four</B> - <B>more
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| 51 | background research</B>! <BR>Once again, head for the encyclopedias.
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| 52 | They will give you a summary of the narrowed topic and familiarize you with
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| 53 | the major themes and vocabulary you will encounter later. <BR>Also, most
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| 54 | encyclopedias include a bibliography which lists the major scholarly works
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| 55 | related to your topic. Once you have that list, head to the library and
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| 56 | use the internet. </font>
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| 57 | <P><font face="Arial"><B>And keep it simple!</B> <BR>Whenever you're writing a paper, always keep
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| 58 | its length in mind. A short paper (3-5 pages) doesn't require the same
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| 59 | amount of research as a longer paper. Don't make yourself work harder.
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| 60 | <BR>If you're interested in a topic beyond what you can include in the paper,
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| 61 | that's great - but immerse yourself in the topic during personal time.
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| 62 | Don't let your paper become more than you can handle. And too much
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| 63 | detail can drown your topic and lower your grade. It's natural to want
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| 64 | to impress your teacher or professor with the breadth of your knowledge, but
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| 65 | too much detail can actually be harmful to the presentation of a clear,
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| 66 | concise argument. </font>
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| 67 | <P><font face="Arial">If you start feeling lost or confused, talk to your teacher. After
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| 68 | all, they know exactly what they want in a paper. </font>
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| 69 | <P><font face="Arial">And now some information about using my sites for research, or the internet
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| 70 | in general.... </font>
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| 71 | <P> <CENTER>
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| 72 | <P><U><FONT size=+1 face="Arial">Help for students conducting research on the 'World Wide
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| 73 | Web'</FONT></U></CENTER>
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| 74 | <P><font face="Arial">Conducting research on the internet can be a tricky and confusing
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| 75 | experience. Luckily for us all, the Department of English at Saint Louis
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| 76 | University has created <A
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| 77 | href="http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/">a website to help
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| 78 | everyone</A> - please take the time to explore this valuable resource.
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| 79 | Also, I have collected information about 'Citing Electronic Sources'.
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| 80 | With these tools, you should be able to research and write about any topic -
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| 81 | and use the internet as authoritatively as you use the library! </font>
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| 82 | <P><font face="Arial">If you prefer to cut and paste links, the link to the Saint Louis
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| 83 | University site is: <BR><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 84 | <a href="http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/">http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/</a>
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| 85 | </font></font><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 86 | <P> </font><P align="center"><u><font face="Arial" size="4">Copyright
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| 87 | information for this website</font></u><P><font face="Arial">I'm very happy that
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| 88 | so many people from all over the world use this site for research. It's
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| 89 | the reason I created the site and continue to work on it. Many of you have
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| 90 | written and asked how to cite my work in your papers and reports. This is
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| 91 | the correct format based upon both the Turabian/Chicago and MLA styles:<br>
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| 92 | <br>
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| 93 | Hanson, Marilee. "Contemporary Descriptions of Anne Boleyn." <i>
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| 94 | EnglishHistory.net</i>. 2001. http://englishhistory.net/tudor/annedesc.html (7
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| 95 | May 2001).</font><P><font face="Arial">You must change the article title to
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| 96 | reflect what you are quoting and use the date you read the source here.
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| 97 | </font>
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| 98 | <p><font face="Arial">Please visit the following sites to learn more - <A
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| 99 | href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/cite.html"><font color="#000000">The LOC's
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| 100 | Citing Electronic Sources</font></A> page and the <font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 101 | <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html">
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| 102 | <font color="#000000">Columbia University Press</font></a></font> website.</font></p>
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| 103 | <font color="#FFFFFF"> </font><p><font face="Arial">Let me clearly state that citing electronic sources is a valid form of
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| 104 | research and accepted at most academic institutions. And I would also
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| 105 | like to reassure every visitor to the site that I have checked and
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| 106 | double-checked every bit of information included on these pages. </font></p>
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| 107 | <P><font face="Arial">Also, if you are citing 'Primary Sources', you do not need to know the
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| 108 | original source of the 'primary source'. Again, it is perfectly
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| 109 | acceptable to cite an internet page as a source and every teacher should be
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| 110 | aware of this - if they're not, tell them. <BR>As I've discovered over
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| 111 | the years, simply because a book has its information printed on paper and
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| 112 | bound in a nice cover doesn't mean it's accurate. In fact, quite a few
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| 113 | recently-published history texts are woefully inaccurate and
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| 114 | misleading. So it is best to check and double-check your research,
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| 115 | whether it comes from the internet or a library. I recently wrote a
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| 116 | rant about this - <font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 117 | <a href="http://englishhistory.net/tudor/history.html">
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| 118 | <font color="#000000">click here to read</font></a></font>.</font><P>
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| 119 | <font face="Arial">If you have general questions about copyright law, <A
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| 120 | href="http://lcweb.gov/copyright/"><font color="#000000">go to this site</font></A>. This is the
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| 121 | homepage of the US Copyright Office; it contains information about
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| 122 | international copyright law, too.</font></P>
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| 123 | <P> </P><font face="Arial">And now -
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| 124 | <B>Copyright information</B>.... boring but vital! Here it is, in
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| 125 | brief - <B>everything at this site was written by me
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| 126 | (Marilee.)</B> Therefore, I hold
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| 127 | the copyright for all my original work. </font>
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| 128 | <P><font face="Arial">And I take all the blame if it bores you to tears or
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| 129 | confuses you endlessly. </font>
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| 130 | <P><font face="Arial">The site was created in 1997 and is updated regularly.
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| 131 | Visit the <FONT color=#FFFFFF> <a href="http://englishhistory.net/tudor/new.html">
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| 132 | <font color="#000000">What's New?</font></a></FONT>
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| 133 | page to find out the exact dates.</font><P><font face="Arial">If you need a
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| 134 | last name to credit the site, please use Marilee Hanson.</font><P>
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| 135 | <font face="Arial">I do not hold the sole copyright to anything at the </font>
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| 136 | <FONT color=#FFFFFF face="Arial"> <A
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| 137 | href="primary.html"><font color="#000000">Primary Sources</font></A></FONT><FONT face="Arial">
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| 138 | section. Those are original historical documents in the public domain
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| 139 | which I collected and transcribed. Yes, it was loads of work to type
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| 140 | everything up, but they were simply transcribed (not written) by me.
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| 141 | That is why they're called 'Primary Sources'. <BR>I do hold the copyright on
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| 142 | the electronic version of the texts, which I typed. This is where the
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| 143 | internet becomes confusing - essentially, the words are not mine but by virtue
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| 144 | of transcribing them into electronic format, I own this particular version.
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| 145 | So I would ask that no one copies my hard work, at least without asking
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| 146 | permission and/or giving me credit. </FONT>
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| 147 | <P><font face="Arial">As for graphics used here, copyright law allows the use of images for
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| 148 | educational purposes, provided no profit is made and the image is not
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| 149 | altered. And since I did go to the considerable trouble of scanning the
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| 150 | images, I like to be asked before someone 'borrows' them. This simple
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| 151 | act of courtesy goes a long way in the happy-go-lucky world of the internet.
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| 152 | </font>
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| 153 | <P><font face="Arial">If you would like to learn more about the legal use of
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| 154 | images, please click </font><FONT color=#FFFFFF face="Arial"> <a href="art.html">
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| 155 | <font color="#000000">here</font></a>.</FONT><CENTER>
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| 156 | <P><font face="Arial">In the end, your visit to this site makes my work worthwhile. <BR>Thanks
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| 157 | for visiting &
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| 158 | <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Copyright">
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| 159 | <font color="#000000">write to
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| 160 | me</font></a> with any specific questions/comments.
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| 161 | <BR>-Marilee</font></CENTER></P>
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| 162 | <p align="center"><font face="Arial"><FONT size=-1><A
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| 163 | href="http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html"><font color="#000000">to Tudor England</font></A></FONT>
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| 164 | <BR><FONT size=-1><A href="http://englishhistory.net/byron.html">
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| 165 | <font color="#000000">to Lord
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| 166 | Byron</font></A></FONT> <BR><FONT size=-1><A
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| 167 | href="http://englishhistory.net/keats.html"><font color="#000000">to John Keats</font></A></FONT>
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| 168 | </font>
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| 169 | </p>
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| 170 | <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">You can also visit this GeoCities site for additional help: <BR><A
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| 171 | href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/4184/"><font color="#000000">How to Organize a Research
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| 172 | Paper and Document It with MLA Citations</font></A>
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| 173 | <BR>And for further reading on Tudor England, <BR>visit the <A
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| 174 | href="biblio.html"><font color="#000000">Tudor Bibliography</font></A> -
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| 175 | <BR>a list of the works I used to create this site.</font></p>
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| 176 | </blockquote>
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