Finishing one thing, Starting another
So the SOURCE application is due in about a week. I need to finish up my portion of the application, and then speak to a few professors about their parts. Finding times they're aren't too busy too meet may be the only problem. Hopefully, I can get it in by the 12th and then not have to worry about it at all.
I need to start evaluating how I'm approaching the master's thesis. Primary resources available to me for this would be medical journals, interviews, first hand accounts, etc. But I'll probably end up using the journals, firsthand accounts, and books by other historians as primary resources. I'm not exactly sure how books by historians could be primary resources, but I suppose I'll simply have to learn how to use them. This being my first paper like this will be a disadvantage, but after I'm done with it I would probably be able to do primary research in my sleep.
One issue I'm confronting is, my 390 class is writing proposals. I'm not certain this is the direction I want to take for the semester, as proposal writing isn't as applicable in history research. Or maybe the proposals are just different. For both, you need a reason why the research is important. You need to document the places where sources could be found. But I think I'd almost rather start truly writing the paper... I need to see whether this would be a viable option, or if I need to slow down and abstract the idea before I try that.
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