<p>I guess its a little late to be asking this, but are we supposed to literally quote the documents, or just refer to their ideas? (i did the former.)</p>
<p>I cited them and then weaved in quotes where they fit nicely.</p>
<p>but is there a certain procedure expected?</p>
<p>I quoted where it was relevant, maybe from one or two documents, and summarized the rest of them and cited by title.</p>
<p>I did it like this. The government guaranteed the freedom of religion. (Doc A)
my teacher said that the reader could find the reference easily this way.</p>
<p>I did what Son of Liberty did.</p>
<p>You don't actually need to cite the documents. You just have to use the ideas. I quoted one, but only because I really liked the quote.</p>
<p>r u suppose to state bias for one of the docs. in ur essay</p>
<p>You don't have to, but I hope you actually spelled out, "are," "you," "documents," and "your," cause they might count down for leet. Big L on your forehead.</p>
<p>There's no clear-cut way to incorporate the documents into your essay, just as long as you don't say something like "In Document A." As long as the reader gets the idea that you're writing an essay that integrates the documents (in any way, shape or form), rather than an "essay" which basically just analyzes the documents (and not the question), you did fine...</p>
<p>I usually quote a sentence per each document and if necessary, paraphrase the rest.</p>
<p>My teacher (who is an AP grader) says that you should quote documents only rarely, if at all.</p>
<p>my teacher who has the best 5 rate in the school, says that you should never directly quote any documents in any of the history DBQ's. In U.S your not even supposed to talk about the documents, just weave them into your essay. There is also no point of view in US, just simply outside information to support your claim.</p>
<p>My teacher also drilled into our heads to NEVER quote the documents, and the graders hate that more than anything.</p>
<p>I used the standard format for citing references. Just state the idea expressed in the source in your sentence and at the end of sentence put the document number in parenthesis.</p>
<p>My Ap Us teacher said never to actually quote documents. Just refer to them...but not as documents.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>The tumult in government under the Articles of Confederation can be seen in Document E, a letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson. WRONG</p>
<p>The tumult in government cand be seen expressed in Abigail Adams' letter to Thomas Jefferson concerning the courts. RIGHT</p>
<p>What's wrong with "Document X says..." ?</p>
<p>Because "Document X" is just a way of organizing your own bibliography, not the name of the actual document itself, and as such those labels can only be used as superscripts or in parenthesis.</p>
<p>duality you are right.</p>
<p>I didn't spell out Document A, Document B, etc.</p>
<p>I just put: Freedom of religion was allowed through blah blah blah (DF). Is that ok...that's what our teacher said...</p>