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Organizing Your Research
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A good organizational scheme is very important during the research phase of your History Day project. Sound organization of your research will save you time, assist you in developing and refining your project's outline, and point out connections between themes and ideas you might otherwise miss. Many scholars use note cards to keep track of their sources (bibliography cards) and their notes (note cards) while conducting research for their projects. Review the example bibliography cards below and click on the Friendly Notepad to the right to find out how to "build" bibliography entries and note cards. Friendly Notepad
bibliography card; primary; Publicity stills for the Rural Electrification Admin. Photographer unknown. ca 1950. TVA: Electricity for All. New Deal Network website.(http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva27.htm). These before and after images of a farm woman doing laundry emphasize the benefits of rural electrification. The Rural Electrification Administration used this type of imagery to educate rural farmers about the advantages of electrification.
bibliography card; secondary; Katherine Jellison. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. This study reviews the modernization of rural farms in the Midwest between WW I and the Vietnam War. It emphasizes the impact electrification had on rural women and their response to it. Much of the quantitative research is presented in concise charts (which include Minnesota data).
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