MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

BEGINNING: I will open with a brief history of the Ottoman Empire. I will then inform the reader of the history of the Journal and a brief statement of the overall trends in the journal's scholarship from 1979-2019.

MIDDLE: First, I will give a metadata analysis of the trends in article attributes and author demographics, with graphics as support. I will then analyze 5 articles on the Ottoman Empire (one from 1979, two from 2009, two from 2019) and explain how their characteristics support my thesis.

END: I will restate my thesis and summarize how the five articles reviewed here support my argument. I will then make suggestions about how JESHO might go about improving on any negative trends.

LOGOS: 1) metadata analysis of article attributes and author demographics 2) historical critique of specific articles 3) explanation of how each chosen article supports this review's thesis

PATHOS: Intellectually responsible scholarship is important, and the Orient is an understudied region in the West.

ETHOS: credibility of the journal itself and the scholars published in it

STRUCTURE: 1) provide context 2) historiographical critique 3) significance of trends and suggestions for the journal's future

GOAL: Inform scholars of the changes in the historiography of the Ottoman Empire as published in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

S, the addition of "mini" in the title really helped as your sample is small but this analysis is important. In ecology we would call this a transient: study a few selected cases on a gradient. Then, use this information to design additional studies.

Looking forward to this.

Mb