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Historical research usually involves taking a lot of notes. Developing systems to process and organize notes in the early stages of research helps historians write better papers. One way to organize notetaking is by themes or ideas which seem to emerge from the document under review. The Alonzo Bump letters contain many possible themes or avenues a researcher could follow to write an interesting paper. Below are listed a few: Money |
Are any of the listed themes ones which you developed from your review of the Alonzo Bump letters? A theme is correct as long as there is a way to make the idea relate to information in the collection. Attached is a word document which shows the way information from the complete Alonzo Bump collection was organized for three possible catagories: Food - Diseases/ Maladies/ Illnesses - Treatments. The suggested notetaking may appear tedious. But the stories created from thorough notes are likely to be far richer in detail and contain more interesting quotes.
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