Friday seminar blog
The main lecturer for this session was unavailable today. This session allowed me to be able to locate sources (Journals, academic papers, books) and analyse them in order to decide whether the author or the paper is accurate and authentic which will help me with my essays. This was made possible using a selection of questions which analysed the document and directed me to any important issues about its content and/or the author.
One criticism about this seminar was the fact that the stand in lecturer gave out random sources regarding society in London. The negative point about this is that the sources were not relevant to my essay topic which is London at war in World War Two. However, it shows that at university, students are not spoon fed and the lecturer has provided us with tools, i.e, the ability and knowledge to verify our own sources.
For the rest of the seminar, the lecturer was providing me with tips about where to find good sources to inform my essay and was talking about how to make a bibliography and how to make footnotes. This is beneficial to me at present because i am used to simply inserting a quote into my paragraphs and saying where this quote came from within the same sentence due to the recent lectures about the Timed Critical Analysis format in the other history modules.
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