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• For an article to count toward the 3 CP tasks, however, it will have to be a substantial and new entry (no double entries under a new heading and no mere revisions, whereas significant expansions of one-sentence stubs are fine). Furthermore, every article will need a bibliography that consists of at least two sources and conforms to the citation guide in the Academic Style Sheet. All verbatim quotes must be identified as such (quotation marks, source incl. the page number) and all other sources need to be acknowledged at the end of the article.
• For reasons of fairness (and academic soundness), we need to enforce these rules. However, do not let that keep you from enjoying writing for an audience and from experimenting with the wiki system. The neat thing is: you gain both in writing (by boiling down a topic to its important elements) and in reading, as this wiki will soon be an 18th-century encyclopedia - reliable and tailored to the course you are attending.

What's hot these days?

Politics & Power		Parliament	House of Lords	House of Commons	Squirearchy
Society		Meritocracy	Nobility	Gentry	Yeoman
Domestic Life, ...		Primogeniture	Strict settlement	Nuclear family	Marriage
... Family, ...		Arranged marriages	Eloping	Swaddling	Mary Astell
... Gender		Elizabeth Montagu	Fanny Hill	Double standard	Molly house

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