Use your blog to organise your accumulated secondary items:
Book sources
- use Library catalogues and the actual shelves to locate books
- Look at the title for relevance, and then check in the Contents and Index pages for references to your focus films and key words of your investigation. You may need to search for associated ideas, or even opposing ideas too.
- ALWAYS RECORD DETAILS OF THE SOURCE ON YOUR BLOG, USING STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CONVENTIONS (SEE LIBRARY ADVICE ON THIS)
- read the sections linked to your investigation (you will often need to read it closely to be sure of the points being made)
- consider photocopying or scanning key pages to highlight and re-read
- post either direct quotes to the blog (properly signalled as quotes with quote marks), or explain points made in your own words
- summarise the usefulness of each secondary item and DON'T SIFT OR REJECT ITEMS until you have done this (both jobs are part of your Catalogue).
- to organise your research of Secondary items, use the LABEL GADGET (ask me if you don't know how) and label each post of this kind 'Secondary Research'.
- If it helps, you could construct a separate grid in Word with the details above, and post that to your blog each time you add to it.
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