HIS496 - History Seminar  

Recommended Strategy to Begin Your Research

Begin your research by reading some background information about your topic. Make a list of key people, dates, and terms relating to your topic. Check out the facets of your topic using the Concept Map tool on CredoReference.

Once you have studied the background of your topic, locate primary and secondary sources with which to write your paper.

Tip: Start your research with secondary sources.  See which primary sources were used by the authors of the secondary sources, and then try to track them down.

Determine other types of primary sources to use:

• Find digitized primary source collections on the web
• Find published primary sources using the online catalog.