Sample Mla Research Paper - "Toward A Recovery Of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks" Page 4
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were then formed to “encourage . . . experimentation, hear reports, observe results, and
exchange critical comments” (Danhof 53). Thus, new knowledge was transmitted orally
If you
Transitions
delete
connect
words from
from farmer to farmer, immigrant to farmer, and traveler to farmer, which could result in
paragraphs
the original
and unify
quote,
the miscommunication of this new scientific knowledge. Therefore, developments were
writing.
insert an
ellipsis,
Notice how
three
made for knowledge to be transmitted and recorded in a more permanent, credible way:
this
periods
paragraph
with a
ends with a
space
by print.
brief
between
mention of
and after
print
each one.
The Distribution of New Knowledge. Before 1820 and prior to the new knowledge
sources and
the next
paragraph
farmers were creating, farmers who wanted print information about agriculture had their
begins with
a
Body
choice of agricultural almanacs and even local newspapers to receive information
discussion
paragraphs
of print
have these
informa-
(Danhof 54). After 1820, however, agricultural writing took more forms than almanacs
four
tion.
elements: a
transition, a
and newspapers. From 1820 to 1870, agricultural periodicals were responsible for
topic
sentence,
spreading new knowledge among farmers. In his published dissertation The American
evidence,
and a brief
wrap-up
Titles of
Agricultural Press 1819-1860, Albert Lowther Demaree presents a “description of the
sentence.
published
works
general content of [agricultural journals]” (xi). These journals began in 1819 and were
(books,
Notice how
journals,
this
films, etc.)
paragraph
written for farmers, with topics devoted to “farming, stock raising, [and] horticulture”
are now
begins with
italicized
a transition.
instead of
(12). The suggested “birthdate” of American agricultural journalism is April 2, 1819
The topic
underlined.
sentence
follows the
when John S. Skinner published his periodical American Farmer in Baltimore. Demaree
transition,
and it tells
writes that Skinner’s periodical was the “first continuous, successful agricultural
readers
what the
paragraph
periodical in the United States” and “served as a model for hundreds of journals that
is about.
Direct
quotes are
succeeded it” (19). In the midst of the development of the journal, farmers began writing
used to
support
handbooks. Not much has been written on the handbooks’ history, aside from the fact that
this topic
sentence.
C.M. Saxton & Co. in New York was the major handbook publisher. Despite the lack of
information about handbooks, and as can be seen in my discussion below, these
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