I’m currently doing research to cover 50 years of history for a student union.

Most of the documentation comes from primary sources - minutes, photos, student newspapers. It’s so many documents. 50 years is a long time it turns out.

I’m currently managing sources using Zotero and putting information down in Microsoft Word. I currently divide my sources by decade.

Do you have any tips from doing similar types of research?

    • Lionir [he/him] ( Lionir@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      That’s a good tip - so far what I’ve done is I have this note in Zotero of “Things to enter into bibliography”.

      The way I keep track of information source is that every sentence I write has atleast one source. This is probably a bad way to do things as I now have 180 footnotes and I’m not nearly done with the first decade.