HUM 8 - Living Wax Museum: START YOUR RESEARCH HERE

To learn more and enrich your research and understanding about your subject, use the recommended resources on this guide. Easily export database citations to your NoodleTools project for your Works Cited page. 

FIND REFERENCE SOURCES 

Useful for a quick overview and designed to help you find certain types of information quickly.

• Start with Gale's Biography in Context  - search for your subject by name and start with the Biographies  results. Select several Reference articles, read them, and take notes. These articles will give you an overview of your subject's life and accomplishments. 

PRIMARY SOURCES

Useful for evidence.

A primary source provides direct, first-hand evidence about an event, object, person or work of art. Primary sources are the original materials on which other research is based. They ennble researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a particular event or time period.

Primary sources include:  personal thoughts (letters, diaries, journals), original photographs, first-hand newspaper reports, speeches, autobiographies, memoirs, creative works like plays, paintings, songs, research data & surveys.

WORKS CITED

• Go to the How Do I Cite? page for instructions on how to create citations for a variety of source types (videos, images, songs, books, websites, database articles, etc.) in NoodleTools.