Hist 208
Research Methods

This is what you should have started for next class and complete by the end of the term:

  1. A paragraph-type outline for your paper (plus the old skeleton outline)
  2. A first page or section that states your argument, approach, etc.
  3. A draft of the chapter that incorporates ALL correct technical elements of style (spacing, margins, headers, notes, biblio, etc)
  4. Within the draft of the chapter the inclusion and discussion of primary sources.
  5. A full bibliography, correctly formatted (part of your "backmatter")
  6. All your frontmatter, correctly formatted (title page, table of contents, preface, list of tables/figures, etc.)
  7. Final draft of all the other documents that you have been working on
  8. A report (could be your research log or other file) that includes a list of the reference, primary materials and other sources you have found and used in the paper (which should also show up cited in your footnotes). In other words, all the materials you have used that don''t show in the bibliography (some bibliography formats mention newspapers and other primary sources in a separate category--if you chose to do that then your bibliography will include primary sources and all you have to worry about is the references materials and guides (which normally don't go in a bibliography).