Research Skills Foundations
Practical approaches students need to understand and interact with primary sources
Designed to develop students' primary source literacy and critical thinking skills, Research Skills Foundations introduces key approaches and methodologies of working with source material.
With practical advice and instruction from experts around the world, it provides foundational guidance on where students can find historical documents, the questions they might want to pose and how best to conduct their own research and analysis of materials.
Introduce students to key concepts that underpin research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Research Skills Foundations will help to embed the core principles and practices for understanding and using primary sources. It can be used in classroom-based and online teaching to enhance student success, as well as for extended study.
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Key data
Source archive
- Sources drawn from AM’s archival partners across the globe
- Critical thinking
- Information literacy
- Student success
- Independent study
- Foundational skills
- Case studies
- Data sets
- Learning tools
- Practice sources
- David Armitage, Harvard University
- Kristopher Burrell, Hostos Community College
- Fiona Courage, Mass Observation Archive
- Rebecca Crites, University of Warwick
- Rowena Xiaoqing He, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Robin Katz, University of California, Riverside
- Jean O'Brien, University of Minnesota
- Peer-reviewed essays, how-to guides and video interviews share the core principles and practices for understanding and using primary sources, from how to critically evaluate a source to using digital tools.
- Over 140 case studies based on digitised sources demonstrate how to analyse, approach and interact with primary source material. Learn how subject experts work with specific types of sources.
- Hundreds of practice sources. This diverse set of historical documents enables students to put their primary source literacy skills into practice.
- Example cases for working with data in history from the presentation of a data set to understanding how to interrogate, interpret and use the data within.
