NEWSPAPER TEMPLATE
Volume 1, Issue 1
April 2011
Research & Analysis Project
Spring 2011
Instructions for Using This
Template
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Dr. Sarah Vonhof
Columnist Instructor, ESF Press
This is a template from Microsoft Word for a newsletter. That’s
a bit different than a newspaper, but I thought it would help to
have columns and headings set up and a layout from which to
begin.
Don’t forget to include citations as endnotes! (See the sidebar
article). If we cannot discern your quotation (whether it is
primary or secondary) you will not receive credit. Remember
that the sample online was from a prior year and had different
criteria. Review the grading rubric and the notes on secondary
citations on the course website. Also read through the syllabus
description before you finalize your project. The teaching team
is happy to review drafts and provide comments and
suggestions.
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Using Styles in This Template
To change the Style of any paragraph, select the text by
positioning your cursor anywhere in the paragraph. Select a
Style from the drop-down Style list at the top-left of your
screen. Press Enter to accept your choice.
The styles available in this template allow you to change the
look of your headlines and other text.
The remainder of what follows is from Microsoft—a set of
instructions for working with this template.
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See Page 4 to learn how to edit or replace this picture.
The following is a list of some styles and their uses:
Body Text - Use this style for the regular text of an article.
Byline - Use this style for the name of the author of an
article.
Byline Company - Use this style to type the author’s company.
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allow articles to flow continuously across pages. For
example, this article continues on page two, while the one to
the right continues on page three. When you add lines of
words to a text box, the words in the following text box
flows forward. When you delete lines of words from a text
box, the words in the next text box move backward. You can
link several text boxes in an article, and you can have
multiple articles in a document. The links do not have to
occur in a forward direction.
Inserting Linked Text Boxes
To insert linked text boxes in a document, click Text Box on
the Insert menu. Click and drag in your document where you
want to insert the first text box, and insert additional text
boxes where you want the text to flow.
To select the first text box, move the pointer over the border
of the text box until the pointer becomes a four-headed
arrow and then click the border. Click the right mouse
button and then click Create Text Box Link.
Click in the text box where you want the text to flow. (When
you move the upright pitcher over a text box that can receive
the link, the pitcher turns into a pouring pitcher.)
Repeat these steps to create links to additional text boxes.
In the first text box, type text that you want. As the text box
fills, the text will flow into the other text boxes that you’ve
linked.
Formatting Text Boxes
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shading, borders, and other formatting. Select the text box
you want to format and then double click its border to open
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color or borders on a text box, choose the Colors and Lines
tab. To change the size, scale, or rotation, click the Size tab.
To change the position of the text box on the page, click the
Position Tab. If you have other text surrounding the text
box, and want to change the way the text wraps around it,
click the Wrapping tab. If you want to format all the text
boxes in an article, you must format them individually - the
formatting on one text box will not apply to the others in the
sequence.
Using Linked Text for Parallel Articles
You can use linked text boxes to flow text in parallel
“columns” from page to page. This method gives different
results than using the Column command on the Format
menu, which causes text in column 1 to flow or “snake” to
column 2 on the same page. By using linked text boxes, you
can instead have text from column 1 flow to column 1 on
the next page. The text beside it in column 2 can flow to
column 2 on the next page, parallel to column 1. This
technique is useful if you need to group two similar articles,
for instance, an article translated in English on the left and
the same article translated in French on the right.
To flow text in parallel, display paragraph marks in your
document. Click at the top of the page where you want the
side-by-side columns to start, and press Enter twice. Click in
the first paragraph mark on the page. On the Insert menu,
click Text Box and drag on the page where you want the first
column. Click Text Box again and then click and drag where
you want the second column. Click in the last paragraph
mark on the page, and press Ctrl + Enter to create a page
break.
Repeat the process for each page that will contain side-byside columns in your document and then return to the first
text box you created. Click the text box on the left once to
select it. Click your right mouse button and then click Create
Text Box Link. The pointer becomes a pitcher. Click the text
box on the left side of the second page to create a link.
Create links for all text boxes within the same article on the
left side of the document. Repeat the process for every text
box in the right chain or article.
Pressing Enter twice at the top of each page will create an
extra empty paragraph. This blank paragraph is useful if you
want to insert text or graphics outside of the text boxes. You
can delete the extra blank paragraph if you don't need it.
Copying linked text boxes
You can copy an article or a chain of text boxes that are
linked together, to another document or to another location
in the same document. To copy linked text boxes and the
text they contain, you must copy all the linked text boxes in
an article. Select the first text box in an article. Hold down
Shift, and click each additional text boxes you want to copy.
On the Edit menu, click Copy. Click where you want to copy
the text boxes and then click Paste.
To copy some of the text from an article, select the text you
want to copy from the article and then copy it. Do not select
the text box. You can paste text you’ve copied directly into
your document, into another location within the same article,
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SIDEBAR ARTICLES
This sidebar article was created by inserting a text box and
then changing the color and line formatting. You can use a
sidebar article for any information you want to keep
separate from other articles or information that highlights
an article next to it. These could include a smaller self-contained
story, an advertisement, or whatever – be creative. (Italicized
suggestion added by Dr. V)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENDNOTES
From Dr. V…. a must read :-)
Endnotes are formatted differently than footnotes, but
they contain all of the citation information. They should
be numbered consecutively, and sequentially. (That means
you don’t use number 1 more than once. ) If you are not
sure about your citation, please check with Dr. Vonhof or
(worst case) add the text “primary source” at the end of
your endnote. At least we will evaluate the quote as such,
rather than not knowing it was one of your primary
sources.
With endnotes, the first time you cite a source you need
the full-blown citation. Upon subsequent references, you
can simply type the last name of the author, the titles, and
the page number.
I’ve copied part of my dissertation notes to the last page to
illustrate (Chicago style). Of course, these are just the
endnotes—the superscript notes (the numbers) should be
in the text of your article. The version of Word that I now
have requires you to compose your bibliography through
something called “The Source Manager.” This can be
accessed from the Document Elements tab—then
References / Manage. From there you can add sources
and then citations. You may have to compose secondary
citations manually. Consult the help menu if you have
troubles.
SIDEBAR HEAD - Use this style to type a second-level heading in
a sidebar article.
SIDEBAR SUBHEAD - Use this style to type a third-level heading
in a sidebar article.
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sidebar article.
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bottom of each page.
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article continues on another page.
Mailing Address - Use this style in a mailing label to type the
destination address.
POSTAGE - Use this style in a mailing label to type postage
information.
Return Address - Use this style in a mailing label to type your
address.
Picture Caption - Use this style to type a description of a picture
or illustration.
Subtitle - Use this style to type sub-headings in an article.
Use PullQuote to excerpt text from the main text of
a story to draw a reader’s attention to the page. See
page 4 for an example.
And remember… you still have to compose a complete
bibliography of all the sources you researched—not just
those you cited or quoted.
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INSERT SYMBOL
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article to let the reader know that the article is finished and
will not continue onto another page. Position your cursor at
the end of the article, click Symbol on the Insert menu,
choose the symbol you want, and then click Insert.
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ANSWERS
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print quality. Can that be done?
A: Yes. To change the shading or
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Colors and Lines tab and then choose
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over the sample text and then click
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ENDNOTES
1
Robert C. Palmer, AThe Origins of Property in England,@ Law and History Review 3 (1985): 7.
2
R. Allen Brown, Origins of English Feudalism (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973) 28. Interestingly enough, the
word feudal did not appear in the English language until 1614; and although Adam Smith used feudal system in 1776,
feudalism was not used until 1839. Ibid., 21; The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology.
3
David Herlihy, Introduction to Part Two: Feudal Institutions, In The History of Feudalism, ed. David Herlihy (New
York: Harper & Row, 1970) 74.
Palmer, AThe Origins of Property in England,@ 5.
4
5
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society, Vol. 1, The Growth of Ties and Dependence, trans. L.A. Manyon (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1961) 115.
6
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society, Vol. 2, Social Classes and Political Organization, trans. L.A. Manyon (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1961) 445. Allodial is the term for unconditional tenure. In Anglo-Saxon England,
bocland or book-land was not subject to services or rent. In modern usage, allodial denotes an estate in fee simple
absolute.
7
John Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 9.
8
Kenneth Pennington, The Prince and the Law 1200-1600 (Berkeley; University of California Press, 1993) 4.
9
Sir Frederick Pollock and F. W. Maitland, The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, vol i, second ed.
(Cambridge: N.p., 1968) xlvii; cited in Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 9.
10
Sir Frederick Pollock, The Land Laws, second ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1887) 53.
11
F. L. Ganshof, Feudalism, trans. Philip Grierson, Third English ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1964) xv.
12
Bloch, Feudal Society, 2: 446.
13
Brown, Origins of English Feudalism, 32.
14
Ibid., 83, 21.
15
Eric Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969) 61.
16
J. C. Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government (London: Hambleton Press, 1985) 11.
17
Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After, 61.
18
Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After, 60.
19
Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 209.
20
Harris, Origin of the Land Tenure System, 25.
21
Trevor Rowley, AMedieval Field Systems,@ In The English Medieval Landscape, Leonard Cantor, ed. (London: Croom
Helm, 1982) 29-30.
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22
Leonard Cantor, AForests, Chases, Parks, and Warrens,@ In The English Medieval Landscape, Leonard Cantor, ed.
(London: Croom Helm, 1982) 56, 82.
23
Pollock, The Land Laws, 41.
24
Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government, 22.
25
V. H. Galbraith, The Making of Domesday Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961) 160; cited in Brown, Origins
of English Feudalism, 87.
26
Brown, Origins of English Feudalism, 53, 87.
27
D. C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (N.c.: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964) 372; cited in Cyril E. Hart, Royal Forest
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966) 7.
28
Oliver Rackam, Ancient Woodland (London: Edward Arnold, 1980) 175.
29
Hart, Royal Forest, xix.
30
Cantor, AForests, Chases, Parks, and Warrens,@ 62.
31
Ibid., 57-8.
32
Charles R. Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979)
167-8.
33
John Gillingham, The Normans, In The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, ed. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1995) 41.
34
Ibid., 42.
35
Palmer, AThe Origins of Property in England,@ 9.
36
Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 150.
37
Palmer, AThe Origins of Property in England,@ 3.
38
AIf any free tenant dies, let his heirs remain in such seisin of his fee as their father had on the day on which he was
alive and dead.@ Assize of Northampton, c. 4, Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional
History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward I, ninth ed. , ed. W. Stubbs (Oxford.: Oxford University Press,
1913) 179; cited in Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 69.
39
Palmer, AThe Origins of Property in England,@ 7. Palmer states that Athere were only two elemental legal ideas in
twelfth century England: wrongs and obligations.@ Ibid., 8.
40
Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 270.
41
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 18.
42
P. R. Hyams, AWarranty and Good Lordship in Twelfth Century England,@ Law and History Review 5 (1987): 478;
cited in Hudson, Land, Law, and Lordship, 258.
43
Cantor, AForests, Chases, Parks, and Warrens,@ 61.
44
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 28.
45
Hart, Royal Forest, 13.
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46
David C. Douglas, and George W. Greenway, eds. English Historical Documents 1042-1189, vol. 2 (London: n.p.,
1953) 418-20; cited in Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 28.
47
Ibid.
48
Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government, 20.
49
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 171.
50
Ibid., 135.
51
Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government, 173.
52
Ibid., 128.
53
Ibid., 97.
54
Ibid., 166.
55
Ibid., 173.
56
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 164-65.
57
Ibid., 68.
58
Hainsworth, Stewards, Lords, and People, 6.
59
Leonard Cantor, AIntroduction: The English Medieval Landscape,@ In The English Medieval Landscape, Leonard
Cantor, ed. (London: Croom Helm, 1982) 19.
60
Marion Clawson, Man and Land in the United States (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964) 11. The tripartite
class division of landlord, tenant farmer, and laborer is often taken as an indicator of agrarian capitalism. However,
this period is not labeled as such because there is not a capitalist production process: farmers are subsistence farmers
and their decisions about what to produce are not determined by the market. Overton, Agricultural Revolution in
England, 203-4.
61
With the increase in population, the only way to increase food production was to decrease the area of royal forest, since
all lands suitable for agriculture had already been used.
62
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 147.
63
Cantor, AForests, Chases, Parks, and Warrens,@ 66.
64
Ibid., 69, 66.
65
Young, The Royal Forests of Medieval England, 154.
66
William B. Greeley, Forest Policy ( New York: McGraw Hill, 1953) 108.
67
Overton, Agricultural Revolution in England, 151. The termination of customary (copyhold) tenures and the
establishment of leaseholds were two other changes associated with enclosure. These are discussed in the context of
the emergence of property in land in the sixteenth century.
68
Ibid., 4.
69
Matthew Johnson, An Archeology of Capitalism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996) 48.
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70
M. W. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, eds., Deserted Medieval Villages (Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1971) 12-14; cited in
Cantor, AIntroduction: The English Medieval Landscape,@ 22.
71
Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the Yeoman (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1992) 14; cited in Robert C. Ellickson,
AProperty in Land,@ Yale Law Journal 120 (1993): 1392.
72
A. R. H. Baker, AChanges in the Later Middle Ages,@ In A New Historical Geography of England before 1600, H. C.
Darby, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976) 195; cited in Cantor, AIntroduction: The English
Medieval Landscape,@ 21.
73
Joan Thirsk, AEnclosing and Engrossing,@ In Agricultural change: policy and practice 1500-1750, Vol 3. of Chapters
from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Joan Thirsk, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
61.
74
Ibid., 68.
75
Ibid.,
76
John E. Martin, Feudalism to Capitalism: Peasant and Landlord in English Agrarian Development, (Atlantic
Highlands: Humanities Press, 1983) 102.
77
Johnson, An Archeology of Capitalism, 54.
78
Thirsk, AEnclosing and Engrossing,@ 54.
79
Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution (London: Allen Lane, 1993) 133; cited in
Johnson, An Archeology of Capitalism, 58.
80
Overton, Agricultural Revolution in England, 148.
81
Joan Thirsk, AAgricultural Policy: Public Debate and Legislation, 1640-1750,@ In Agricultural change: policy and
practice 1500-1750, Vol 3. of Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Joan Thirsk, ed.,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 145.
82
Johnson, An Archeology of Capitalism, 76.
83
Overton, Agricultural Revolution in England, 165.
84
Johnson, An Archeology of Capitalism, 206.
85
Scott, In Pursuit of Happiness, 9.
86
The death of King Richard III in 1485 is traditionally taken as the division between the medieval and modern era.
87
Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After, 23.
88
Pollock, The Land Laws, 97, 104. The statutes are the Statute of Uses and the Statute of Enrollments.
89
Seipp,@The Concept of Property in the Early Common Law,@ 66.
90
Ibid., 84; footnote omitted.
91
Ibid., 84.
92
Ibid., 87.
93
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (1930; reprint, London: Routlege,
1992) 80.
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94
Schlatter, Private Property, 80.
95
Ibid., 80.
96
Ibid., 85.
97
Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment, 348.
98
Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government, 17.
99
Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment, 348. See also Pockock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, Chs. II
and III.
100
J. P. Sommerville, Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 (London: Longman, 1986) 145.
101
Ibid., 148.
102
Appleby, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination, 51.
103
Brown, Origins of English Feudalism, 91.
104
Holt, Magna Carta and Medieval Government, 19.
105
Military tenures and their incidents were abolished by Charles II in 1660 with the restoration of the monarchy. Taking
the premise that feudalism originated with the knight and his fief, it follows that it would end officially with the
abolition of military tenures.
106
Wood, The Politics of Locke=s Philosophy, 15-20.
107
Clawson, Man and Land, 10.
108
Alfred N. Chandler, Land Title Origins: A Tale of Force and Fraud (New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation,
1945) 47.
109
Scott, In Pursuit of Happiness, 10.
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