Primary Source Descriptions Highlights: Project Purpose and Goals: (These are just suggestions, you don’t have to follow these rules) Make the analysis credible and thorough Notice and document details and make new associations you might overlook… Document experiences of the primary source in oral or written form (Take notes)… Different perspectives (1st, 2nd, the object itself)… […]
Primary Source and Objective Description Class Work 2.1.18
Primary Source: Data authors generate themselves Secondary Source: Reporting someone’s point of view about data already generated It depends on how the researcher is using the source… What is objective description: Writing down details Flickr Objective Detail Description: This is a store with signs with specific prices and it appears that Coffee is sold there because […]
Active Reading: Ancient Crayon and Haltman’s Passage Paraphrase
What is the article about? The article talks about British archaeologists finding a 10,000-year-old crayon. They described it as a “crayon-like object” and they also discussed other materials found that helped them understand the culture of the hunter-gatherers who were on the shores of the ancient lake many years ago. What is interesting or problematic about […]
Haltman’s Essays in Material Culture and Cline’s What is a Machete, Anyway? Response
While reading both the primary and supplemental text, I found it challenging to understand what exactly Haltman’s purpose was. What was he trying to explain and how exactly was I supposed to understand this. I read it a few times and I completely blanked so I moved on to the supplemental text and I understood the primary […]
Conventions of the Book & Blog genre
Book: Gray: “Black & White” Font: Blocky, “Stencil,” “Official” Editors/Authors (Multiple) Lots of Space/Centered Publisher info at the bottom Introduction: “Formal” Notes page with citations at the end Appears to be a “scholarly work” Chapter Name & Author on each page resembling a book Specific lexicon No pictures Linguistic text Audience: Other researchers/people in school, […]