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US History Research Paper Info

Page history last edited by Mrs. K. 12 years ago

Below are some resources you might find helpful while doing your research:

 

Mr. Bonte's Links

delicious -let somebody else do all the work of researching your topic. 

Search for ready made lists of sources about your topic or use this to

keep track of all of your sources in one place.

DocsTeach -Search from thousands of primary sources selected from the National Archives. 

XTimeline -create and search for timelines about your topic

Source Breakdown Organizer

 

Box.net -free online file storage up to 1 GB

Eduplace-Primary Source Search 

Quintura -Use this visual search engine for those times when you need help 

finding the exact search terms you want but can't think of.

What are Primary Sources? -According to Yale 

Internet Archives -Free movies, music, text, and audio that may be helpful in your research.

100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents 

Zotero -online research organization tool.  Their slogan says, "Goodbye 3 X 5 cards, hello Zotero".  *Only works with the new version of Firefox.

 

 

Chapter 1 Outline Ideas:

I. General intro to topic (purpose/rationale)

II. "Area of concern" presented

III. Talk about "historical perspective"

IV. Separate glossary of relevant terms needs to be done eventually

   A. ex. "cold war", "red scare", etc.

 

 

Chapter 2 Outline Source Questions:

I.Intro (recaps your idea)

II. Source 1

A. Purpose of the source

B. Subjects covered

C. Targeted info

C. Your findings and conclusions for this source

III. Source 2

A. Purpose of the source

B. Subjects covered

C. Targeted info

C. Your findings and conclusions for this source

IV. Source 3

A. Purpose of the source

B. Subjects covered

C. Targeted info

C. Your findings and conclusions for this source

V. Source 4

A. Purpose of the source

B. Subjects covered

C. Targeted info

C. Your findings and conclusions for this source

VI. Conclusion (compares/contrasts and sums up all sources)

 

Chapter 3 Outline Ideas:

I.  Intro

(brief restatement of problem)

II.Conclusion I

(discussion - concise statement of reasoning)

III. Conclusion II

(discussion)

IV. Conclusion III

(discussion)

V. Implications  and recommendations

     A. Apply conclusions to the problem

     B. Analyze what the conclusions mean in terms of understanding

 

Final Order (typed, double spaced, size 12 Times New Roman)

Title

Abstract (single spaced, italics, centered top/bottom, left justified)

Table of Contents

Glossary

Outline

Ch. 1

Ch. 2

Ch. 3

Appendix

Works Cited (double spaced, alphabetical order)

 

 

 

Comments (1)

Mrs. K. said

at 11:41 am on Mar 12, 2010

Please let me know if you have other links you think would be helpful to share.

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