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In last paper, you analyzed a single source that helped show how you personally fit into a broader community and historical moment. For this assignment you are to locate at least three primary sources that specifically address a research question that you come up with, and use them to make an argument about an issue of local importance. What do these primary sources tell you that you did not already know? How do they complicate and illuminate an issue or question that you have been pursuing? The purpose of this paper is to make an argument about an issue, not to find out information about a topic. If you just present information you located, you have not done the assignment.
A primary source, as we have learned, can be almost anything that serves as a direct witness to history. It is usually not an academic, peer reviewed source, but a source that you can examine and analyze. A difficult part of this assignment will therefore be narrowing down and choosing the most appropriate primary source for your research:
? Is there a public official or category of person (for example, student, professor, bus driver, resident of the Six Pack) who would likely have useful information?
? Do you need to know local history that might be recorded in the University Archives, the Student Life and Culture Archives, or the archives of a town library or civic institution?
? Would everyday objects in your surroundings help you answer your question? A poster in the hallway, the menu in the dining hall, the ?don?t walk? sign at the intersection of Green and Wright could all be relevant, depending on the information you need.
You might find it helpful to start with one primary source, and have the questions it raises lead you to the next primary source for more information. Also remember that primary sources don?t speak for themselves; you must tell us why they are significant. Be sure to be very precise in your description of a primary source. Also, pay attention to how each primary source informs another. Your primary sources should provide you with enough new information to refine and complicate your question and come to some provisional conclusions. Be sure in your essay to address new questions that your primary sources raise that you have yet to answer.
Some requirements and helpful pieces of advice:
1. You may continue to work in a group. If you work in a group, each person must locate at least TWO primary sources.
2. Do not steal your primary sources!
3. If you want to use the University of Student Life archives (which is a great idea to learn about local issues), Review the Primary Source Village modules before searching in the Archives: https://www.library.illinois.edu/village/primarysource/index.htm . These modules are very helpful.
4. The Primary Source Village modules are also great in general for helping you remember what a primary source is and how primary sources can be useful.
5. A note on interviews: give careful thought to whether an interview will be a great source for your paper. It?s tempting to think that interview automatically makes your paper more authoritative or interesting, but remember that an interview is a source like any other?it is to be analyzed and not merely reported. There are some research questions that an interview can really help to illuminate, and some questions that an interview is no help at all. If you do conduct an interview, review carefully the discussion of interview protocols and preparation in your ?Primary Sources: Documents and Interviews? chapter.
6. The use of images in this essay is acceptable and even encouraged. If your primary source is a map, photo, or other image, it is helpful to include a visual representation of it in your essay to help clarify your argument.
7. Whatever you collect, make sure you have a record of it?a photocopy, a recording, a URL, a photo?to show your instructor, and be sure to collect any relevant citation information, including date and location where you found the object/conducted the interview. If your primary source is from the University or Student Life and Culture Archives, include box and serial number in your citation. A complete Works Cited page is REQUIRED for this assignment.
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