Posted by
AJH on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:50:00 PM
Well what I have learned this week is to pay more attention to deadlines. I got so wrapped up in a new website, Footnote.com, that I neglected my assignments. Not sure what I was thinking, but I found some great material on the American Revolution and some of my ancestors. It is a the Revolutionary pension file of one of my great-great.... uncles named William Tidd. Until I found it this weekend I had no idea it existed. The original is housed in the National Archives in Washington.
In regards to this class and the research paper, I have found some good resources at the Chemeketa library and online. Yesterday I a book I bought online came in the mail, Illinois in the Civil War. I have been reading it and have found a good deal of information. It's funny how all sorts of interesting facts are spread throughout so many sources. I have yet to find the books written specifically on the Battle of Perryville, but I intend to. What I am curious about is if the material I have discovered and find of interest is the same as these authors.
Reading through the assignments section of the class site, I've learned that we are to use APA style in documenting sources. Good to know. I have been using various databases to search for articles and essays and have used both the MLA and APA features. The good news is it's quite simple and easy to find a given article again and have the computer do the APA configuration.
I would like to include footnotes in the paper, so I will have to check and see if this acceptable. From reading about APA style, footnotes are acceptable. I have considered endnotes, but I personally prefer footnotes. They are much more readily accessible. I don't think I have ever followed a note in any given text to the endnotes at the back of a book.
The Oregon State, Chemeketa, Salem Public, and Western Oregon libraries have all been helpful in my research.