Background reading on your topic. Start by reading about your topic in your textbook, Wikipedia and any other general information source you find. You want to look for important dates, terms and names that will help you do a more detailed search for the scholarly secondary and primary sources you post to the discussion board.
Step One: find a scholarly secondary source.
Follow the directions to find a scholarly secondary source that is written by a history expert for other history experts that was originally published in a history journal.
Step Two: read, cite, summarize and evaluate your secondary source.
Read the article carefully looking for the main points for your summary. Try to determine the writer’s point of view, what they are trying to prove to their history colleagues. All writers have a point of view try to figure it out.
Use the Considering Your History Sources with a Critical Eye handoutPreview the document to help evaluate your secondary source. ( I WILL BE UPLOAD THE HANDOUT PREVIEW FILES)
Primary Source:
Step One: find a scholarly primary source.
Using the free web find a primary source that a scholar would use. Scholars often go to archives and museums to read original historical documents and artifacts. We need to see them together, so you will need to find reproductions and transcriptions that are of the quality historians would use and trust.
Step Two: read, cite, summarize and evaluate your primary source.
Read the source carefully looking for the main points for your summary. Try to determine the writer point of view. All writers have a point of view try to figure it out.
