At Researcher’s Gateway we try to bring to you some helpful tools for researching and writing, and this week I bring you the idea of Mind Mapping. Mind mapping is a method…
Category: Research Tools
Research Tools: Using Notes for Organizing Information
Research Notes are an incredible important tool for organizing your information when collecting research. Over the holidays, my husband and I worked on organizing our house, especially my office. In the process,…
What are Ethnographic Sources?
In this blog, we focus on Ethnographic sources, a type of primary source that is inconsistently outside of academia, and yet they are invaluable. So far we have already covered Primary Sources…
Written Accounts and Visual Representations as Primary Sources
Academic scholars also consider written accounts, such as diaries, writing on monuments, letters, commonplace books, autobiographies, wills, court documents, treaties, books of law, and merchant logs as primary sources.
Photographs in Archaeology as a Primary Source
In academia, photographs are not just considered an acceptable primary source; they are an invaluable one. Archaeological research often destroys the item that it uncovers, and the only way these artifacts are…
Multiple editions of the same source in research
So our question today is why use multiple editions of the same source in your research and why include it in a bibliography. I wrote this, as I often do, in response…
Primary Sources and the Lens of Research
Primary sources are the first hand artifacts of a time period and one of the most important parts of research.
Welcome to the Researcher’s Gateway!
Welcome to the Researcher’s Gateway! We’re pretty excited to introduce you to our project, which is designed to help make research easier. We plan to discuss research tools, terms, tips, and stories…
Research for Writers
Writers create and recreate worlds—stories that can immerse the reader in dramatically different times and places than where we live presently. Details about the time and place—things like clothing, important people and…