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Oct. 8th, 2012 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe current status of my history research, as detailed in a letter I just wrote to my professor:
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Good evening!
I have a couple of things to talk to you about regarding this essay. Maybe you can offer advice tomorrow during class, but I thought I'd send you an email.
On the sources, I think I'm doing well in finding sources on microfilm, but I haven't found very many print sources from 1935. I found Fortune, which should give me something to work with, but publications like Life and Newsweek only exist in the library in microfim in that year. I wonder if you might have any suggestions on other periodicals specifically in print that would be helpful.
More generally, I feel like I'm flailing around a bit in terms of research. I started out by making a spreadsheet of all of the references to labor in the 1935 New York Times index that seemed like they might be relevant. I put the dates in one column so I can sort them all by date and go through the microfilm systematically, but I seem to spending a great deal of time collecting meta-data and very little collecting actual data. Does this seem like a valid approach to you? I originally thought that periodicals would be less time-intensive than archival sources, but if anything it seems the opposite is true for me.
Anyway, I think what I really need to do is come up with a more solid outline to direct my research, so I'm working on that tonight.
Thanks,
*me
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Good evening!
I have a couple of things to talk to you about regarding this essay. Maybe you can offer advice tomorrow during class, but I thought I'd send you an email.
On the sources, I think I'm doing well in finding sources on microfilm, but I haven't found very many print sources from 1935. I found Fortune, which should give me something to work with, but publications like Life and Newsweek only exist in the library in microfim in that year. I wonder if you might have any suggestions on other periodicals specifically in print that would be helpful.
More generally, I feel like I'm flailing around a bit in terms of research. I started out by making a spreadsheet of all of the references to labor in the 1935 New York Times index that seemed like they might be relevant. I put the dates in one column so I can sort them all by date and go through the microfilm systematically, but I seem to spending a great deal of time collecting meta-data and very little collecting actual data. Does this seem like a valid approach to you? I originally thought that periodicals would be less time-intensive than archival sources, but if anything it seems the opposite is true for me.
Anyway, I think what I really need to do is come up with a more solid outline to direct my research, so I'm working on that tonight.
Thanks,
*me
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