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HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: "Particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces ...."
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Book on History Research Process
A Student's Guide to History by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1457621444Publication Date: 2013-05-03This guide provides comprehensive coverage of the historian's research process -- from formulating a research question to how to find, evaluate, and work with sources of all types -- written and nonwritten, in print and online. The writing process is explained thoroughly as advice on creating a strong thesis and writing an effective paper culminates with a model student research paper. The appendices and companion Web site point students to the most helpful research resources.
Doing Research is Engaging in Scholary Conversation
What is Scholarly Conversation?
Any time you do research, you are joining a scholarly conversation. Scholarly conversation is the existing publications, conferences, online discussions, and more surrounding a particular topic. Most often when we talk about scholarly conversation, it refers to published material such as books, essay collections, or journal articles. For whatever research topic you chose to write about, there is already a scholarly conversation going on about that topic. Your job as the researcher is to enter into that conversation by doing research to find out what the scholars are saying. This will involve searching the Catalog and Library Databases for books and articles. Then, you will lend your own voice to the conversation by crafting your own argument about the text.
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