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…
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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,…
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…
What are Secondary and Tertiary Sources
While primary sources are essential, secondary and tertiary sources are invaluable to a researcher. While it is true that they are one or more steps removed from the primary sources—the raw data…
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…
Our Research Topics
Our Research Collections span the globe and the timeline. Here you can find our research topics listed in 3 sections. “Current Research” is everything that we have active at this time, and…
Research Customized for You
We can Customize Research just for you! Researcher’s Gateway strives to provide both general background and more detailed information and resources on a wide variety of topics, with a growing library of…