{"id":365,"date":"2015-01-29T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathonabaker.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-01-29T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:08:52","slug":"worksheet-on-choosing-a-topic-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/worksheet-on-choosing-a-topic-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Worksheet on Choosing a Topic (Sellers)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Choosing a topic for any paper is a process. Completing each of the following steps (in any order) should help you choose a topic that is appropriate for the assignment. We will have a library research session focused on primary sources in Simpson Library 225 on 1\/27, and you need to turn this worksheet in on Thursday, 1\/29, so you should be doing some work even before that library session.<\/div>\n
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  1. Briefly describe the library research that you did towards choosing a topic. Include at least two reference books that you used and three library search-engine subject headings that you found useful.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • I used the hand out from Jack Bales to make an advanced search on the UMW Library website, using words like \u201cDocuments, Sources, Letters, and Personal Narratives\u201d for subject headings. I then used the \u201cUncovering Primary Documents\u201d page in the History Department guide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      1. Briefly describe the internet research that you did. Name at least one useful website for online archives that you surveyed (do not include simple library catalogs.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        • For online archives I utilized the library of congress as you suggested in class and the search came up with an abundance of pictures but lacked in the written documents section. So I went back to the History subject guide page and found a list of sites to search from; \u201cPrimary Documents in American History, Historic Diaries, and Eyewitness to History\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          1. You should talk to at least one member of this history department about your topic and at least one<\/span> of the primary sources you have identified for it. Arrive at that meeting with some initial research completed so you have something to discuss. Name that professor and provide a summary of their advice. Please have the professor sign here at your meeting:____________________________<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            • I have emailed Professor Mackintosh, and he said he is willing to sit with me during his office hours, so I will try and meet with him in the coming week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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              1. You must have a primary source for this paper.\u00a0 Provide any pertinent information on that primary source including website and\/or call number\u2014in other words, how you\u2019re going to access it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                • The cprr.org website has an eight page primary source from a traveler that crossed the once endless seeming span of America in five days. I emailed, and saved the link to myself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  1. Are enough secondary sources available on this topic? Briefly discuss the most recent secondary sources you have found that were published by a university press and\/or academic journal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                    • I do not think that secondary sources will be of any problem to me in for this historic topic. Some of the most recent works that I found throughout the sites and databases are that of Social History, referring to workload and psyche.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}