Step 1: Become the expert on everything related to your topic. Spend your time reading/skimming anything and everything you can related to your topic! This part will take time, but is vital to understanding your topic. As you do so, remember to record links, save documents, and jot down notes of any source you think may be helpful for your project (See "Record sources as you go" below).
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Step 2: Narrow down your sources to only the most important information. Writing your thesis statement will help you narrow down your sources (See "Thesis Statement" tab above). Start to weed out sources that are not relevant to your thesis. Remember you are only allowed 500 words on your final exhibit! Be sure to keep only crucial information that relates to your thesis, historical context, historical significance, and theme connection.
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Keep a rough draft record of all of the sources you find! This record can be as simple as a Google Doc that contains the title of the source, website link/author, and a quick explanation of its importance to your project. Keeping a rough draft will help you be organized and save you time when we create our annotated bibliographies.
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