- Work through a set of tutorials about research in history.
- Develop a research question on a focused topic using the list of themes provided.
- Use library resources to identify and locate sources for research on the focused topic
- Write a short paragraph explaining how the sources were identified and located
- The Research Process
- Background Research Tips
- Narrowing Your Topic
- Constructing a Thesis Statement
You will use two documents for this step, a List of Themes, and a Form for submitting your work.
- Select a theme from the list provided and type your choice into the form.
- Using what you learned in the tutorials from Step 1, develop a research question. Type the research question into the form provided. Your research question
- Should not be a restatement of the theme, but should be more specific, considering some aspect of the theme that can be analyzed in a typical 8-10 page research paper.