• Tutorial 1: Select and Refine Research Topic
  • The art of topic selection
  • The class journal
  • Topic generation techniques
  • Topic refining
  • Using encyclopedias to focus a topic
  • General v. specialized encyclopedias
  • Typical ways to focus a topic
  • The research problem or hypothesis
  • The purpose of your paper
  • Point of view
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Determine Information Requirements
• How much information do I need?
• Understanding your assignment
• The historiographical essay
• The art of history detection
• Starting a bibliography
• Bibliography and note cards
• Imagining Sources Practice Question #1
• Imagining Sources Practice Question #2
• Imagining Sources Practice Question #3
• Keeping a research log
• Quiz

• Tutorial 1: Locate Books Using the Library Catalog
  • What are secondary sources?
  • Books
  • Choosing a search type
  • Keyword v. alphabetical searching
  • Library Catalog Practice Question 1
  • Library Catalog Practice Question 2
  • Tips for subject searching in history
  • Subject surfing
  • Searching by place and time
  • Library Catalog Practice Question 3
  • Call numbers
  • My book isn't in the library
  • Union catalogs
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Locate Journal Articles and Book
• What is a journal article?
• Locating scholarly journal articles
• What is an index or abstract?
• Types of indexes and abstracts
• Using America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
• Identifying terms with the magnifying glass
• The America:History & Life record
• America: History & Life Practice Question 1
• America: History & Life Practice Question 2
• America: History & Life Practice Question 3
• Which journals does the Library have?
• My article isn't in the library
• Book reviews
• When was the book published?
• Tools for locating book reviews
• Quiz

• Tutorial 1: What are primary sources?
  • Imagine…
  • Characteristics of a primary source
  • What gets saved?
  • Archives
  • Manuscripts
  • Types of archival materials #1
  • Types of archival materials #2
  • Non-written primary sources
  • Types of archival institutions
  • Student v. professional research
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Locate primary sources outside archives
• The archival balancing act
• Primary sources in book form
• Locating published sources in the library catalog
• Microform collections
• Finding and using microform
• Newspapers
• Finding newspapers
• Finding recent newspaper articles
• Other library resources
• Digital primary source collections on the web
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
• Making of America
• California Heritage Collection
• What Did You Do in the War Grandma?
• American Memory
• Quiz
• Tutorial 3: Locate primary sources in archives
• Advantages of using original sources
• Tools for finding primary sources in repositories
• Locate primary sources in archival institutions
• Directories
• Directories of web sites
• Library catalogs
• NUCMC and RLIN
• RLIN AMC Practice Question
• The catalog record
• The finding aid
• Electronic finding aids
• The Online Archive of California Practice Question
• Chadwyck-Healey Archives USA
• Using an archive
• Quiz

• Tutorial 1: Evaluating Secondary Sources
  • Historical truth
  • Popular v. scholarly sources
  • Judging books by what others have said
  • What makes an article scholarly?
  • Distance from event
  • The author's credentials
  • Finding an author's central argument
  • Bias or point of view
  • Use of footnotes
  • Use of primary sources
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Evaluating Primary Sources
  • Interpreting primary sources
  • The paradox of primary sources
  • Intentional v. unintentional testimony
  • Distance from event
  • Social and cultural distance
  • Non-documentary primary sources
  • Quantitative history Photographs
  • Film and video
  • Artifacts and material culture
  • Useful reference tools
  • Quiz

• Tutorial 1: Organize and Plan
  • Pulling it all together
  • Getting a bird's eye view
  • Building your paper
  • Scaffolding: the outline
  • Bricks: the evidence
  • The Three Parts of a History Paper
  • The Introduction
  • The Body
  • The Conclusion
  • Parts of a Paper Practice Question
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Draft, Revise, and Edit
  • The role of writing in history
  • The discovery draft
  • The paragraph
  • Topic sentences
  • Support
  • Transitions
  • Revising your paper
  • Editing
  • Common grammar problems
  • Spelling errors
  • Quiz

• Tutorial 1: The Ethics of Documenting Sources
  • Purposes of documentation
  • What is plagiarism?
  • Plagiarism Practice Question
  • Forms of documentation
  • What to cite?
  • Quoting v. paraphrasing
  • Quotations mistakes
  • Quotation conventions
  • The Bibliography
  • Types of bibliographies
  • Quiz
• Tutorial 2: Using a Style Manual
  • What is a style manual?
  • Turabian
  • The citation
  • Note v. bibliography citations
  • Citing books
  • Citing journal articles
  • Special cases
  • Special Cases Practice Question #1
  • Special Cases Practice Question #2
  • Special Cases Practice Question #3
  • Citing electronic sources
  • Quiz