How to mine for resources<\/p>\n
by Zo\u00eb Mahler<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s Week 3, which means all our first papers are starting to pop up. The first step of every great paper is knowing you have the resources to back up your claims. But the first step may also be the most difficult one as well.<\/p>\n
Finding good information from reputable sources can be tricky. We\u2019ve all been in a situation where we find that one really good source. It\u2019s easy to think, \u201cThis is really all I need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well \u2026 not quite.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a pattern for me: Each paper I write is usually going to need at least five or so sources. But what do you do when you find that One Great Source and don\u2019t want to look anywhere else? Bibliography mining might be your best bet.<\/p>\n
Something I often forget when reading through the articles and books I\u2019ve found is that the information I\u2019m finding has already been compiled from multiple sources. At the end of every scholarly source \u2013 article, book, book review \u2013 you\u2019ll find the bibliography of sources from which the author of your source already did his\/her research.<\/p>\n
So why not just take a peek there?<\/p>\n
When I\u2019m in a pinch to find more resources, I\u2019ve become accustomed to finding the footnotes or in-text citations from the areas of an article that I\u2019ve used the most, and then flipping to the bibliography to see where that information is originally from. Within that bibliography, it\u2019s much easier for me to narrow down what articles and books I can use to continue to acquire the number of sources needed for each paper.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s only Week 3, so hopefully, with these tips and tricks on how to find reputable resources with the information you\u2019re looking for, you can use this method of bibliography mining to ace the rest of your papers through the rest of the spring semester. Happy mining!<\/p>\n
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Zo\u00eb Mahler is a senior with a double major in art history and mass communication and minors in religion and sociology. This past summer she traveled abroad in the Wales and Malta program studying archaeology.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to mine for resources by Zo\u00eb Mahler It\u2019s Week 3, which means all our first papers are starting to pop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,8,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2","category-tresources","category-writeherewritenowwriteon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-14-at-4.51.05-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-HD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}