Students will learn about primary and secondary sources in humanities research.
Students will learn about history scholarship and how to use it in their own research.
Students will learn what rhetoric is in everyday life AND scholarship (and how to critically engage with it).
(In class) Students will learn and practice mind-mapping concepts to organize information
Primary sources might be impactful, but if we don't know anything about the source, then does it lose value? Let's play a game! With no meta data, can we guess who is in the following images?
Who is this handsome fella (with amazing hair!)?
Why aren't these worth any money!? They're really old!
Creating Context
Background information (that's the ingredients)
Scholarly research, articles, bibliography (that's the main core, the doughnut)
Secondary (and sometimes primary) sources and second opinions or even contrary opinions to add context and support your core points (this is frosting and sprinkles).
1. Primary & Secondary Sources: OPEN WEB
Primary Sources can be oversimplified as: first-hand accounts, eye-witness testimony, person on the scene telling what they saw, etc.
Secondary Sources can be simplified as: someone recording (and publishing) a report or contextual text with those first-hand accounts. Most newspapers and news agencies on tv work as secondary sources.
google searches (put in your own keywords):
oral history:immigrant greece
oral history:immigrant guatemala
diary:women vote
diary:evolution
Marriott Library Digital Items (from ours and other Utah collections)
The Digital Public Library of America dp.la
Statewide Portals
California (online archive)
Utah Div. of State History
Oregon Historical Archives
Others...
2. Primary & Secondary Sources: HISTORY DATABASES
Library databases (like we're now used to using) have a lot of the great traditional analysis of what matters in themes like your art project talks about...
Print Books & Ebooks in the library catalog [sample book search for history of women & equity in the 1800s]
America: History & Life
JSTOR (go to 'history' subject in adv. srch)
Historical Newspapers (this one sometimes appears in the primary source list)
Utah Digital Newspapers
New York Times Historical Newspaper (from 1851 onwards!)
The Pittsburg Courier (prominent African-American newspaper from 1911-2002)
3. Further Context: RHETORIC, ARGUMENT, DEBATE
What is Rhetoric? -Any situation in which people consciously communicate with each other.
-Individual people tend to perceive and understand just about everything differently from one another.
-Rhetoric is the set of methods people use to identify with each other—to encourage each other to understand things from one another’s perspectives.
Gagich & Zickel. A guide to rhetoric, genre, and success in first-year writing. MSL Academic Endeavors.
https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/csu-fyw-rhetoric/
(easy!) Library Catalog Advanced Search
search:
rhetoric OR debate OR argument
AND
keywords from your theme!
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