I have learned that academic articles are some of the best means of gathering information about a topic you can use. This is also good because the articles themselves have been reviewed by students and professors at your or other colleges and tend to help those searching for a specific topic. These topics include well known and researched subjects that most people have done research on, or unknown and obscure articles based on a project that is far more unique or uncommon on college campus. T-Rex in Wonderland: Kentucky’s 27-million-dollar Creation Museum Turns One
is one example of these articles that can help people with their topic on the Creation Museum if say they are comparing it to a Natural History museum that uses science to tell their message where the Creation Museum uses the bible to tell its message.
Using the different research methods of the Museum Studies program has helped me on several occasions over the past school year with many different projects. These include using historical documents and literature to research my projects with relative ease. Yet these are not the only means of gathering information, videos, audio recordings, images, and journals are great way of gathering information for projects.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12052-008-0063-6
http://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v5_1943/v5i4.pdf
I'm curious as to which specific research methods you intend to use for your thesis project (WWI in Rochester, I believe?). Given that anyone who was alive and aware during WWI is now deceased, conducting interviews isn't a possibility, but what kinds of primary sources can you consult to bring a human pespective to a topic that has been covered so thoroughly academically?
ReplyDeleteGiven your experience at your internship site and the RIT Archive collections, it seems that some of your sources might be narrowly focused. And, this could be a benefit in preventing what we call "scope creep"—when your project blossoms out and becomes much larger than anticipated! Looking forward to learning more!
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