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Searching for sources

-Compiling the working bibiography.

To begin putting together a working bibiography, get a supply of three by five inch note cards for
biibogtaphy cards.

-The information on bibliography cards.

1.books

2.periodicals

3.gatering sources

-The three students gather their sources

Fred hutching began assembling a working bibliography while reading background sources about Cotton
Mather.

-Reassesing your topic.

While searching for sources, you may reach a point where you doubt the topic is workable either
because you are finding far too many pottential sources or because you have found too few. If after
several hourse of intensive searching throught various indexes as well as the card catalog.

-Narrowing a topic that is too broad

We show how are student limited his subject, cotton mather,to a reasonable topic, mather is
complicated role in the witch trials after a compere.With his instructor and a background reading
session in the library. Fred had some familiarity with his subject, which made it easy for him to take full
advantage of the advice he received. However, another student, whi knew relatively little about her
subject .

-Revising a topic that is too narrow.

You may never find yourself in this position, for most neecorrens to research Tend to come up that
yopic that are to broad.if you remember the warning about the topic that can be completely researched
by reading just one scure.

-skimming potential sources

Once you have complied what seems to be an adequate working bibliography l, you are almost ready to
begin reading the sources and taking notes. Before you undertake this chalenging work.
-Skimming books

Skimming book begin with the table of contents and the inder. The table of cortents ussualy
presents a broad outline of the books organization in the author the disscussion

Particullat topic you may be able to find out from the chapter tittle the exend of disscusion

11. Evaluating Potentual Source

12. depth of Coverage

13. Primary Versus Secondary Sources

Ancther kind of topic unay send y back in time for many of pur Soutes. For example, if you gickeda topic
insolving the constinutional amendment that granted women the right to vote, you would pobably want
to find out what the general public as wel as the leading se ial commentators thought about the issue in
the years ieialy belome

14. Guidelines For Working With Periodicals

that periodicals fall into two main classes- magazines, which are designed to be read by the general
public, and journals, which are written for experts in particular fields. Each class poses distinct problems
for research paper writers.

Bibliography

wedenberner, s. (1951). See also Documenting Source ;liberaries ;list of work cited ; note taking ;
parenthetical; working bibiography. New yorkst: st Martin 's Press.