How To Research & Write

Scholarly Sources

One of the first steps in writing essays and research papers is to understand sources. In academia, there are primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are the evidence and documentation that happens at the same time as the event in question. Secondary sources are works that use the primary sources to make their own conclusions, analyze, and/or summarize the primary sources.

Annotated bibliography

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Find trustworthy sources in the Scholarly Sources guide, then keep track of them and take notes with an annotated bibliography.

University Writing Center Writing Guides

As history students at the University of Texas - Austin, we spent our early years learning from our University Writing Center. UT’s UWC is a writing center that provides resources, workshops, presentations, and consultations for UT students who want help writing. While UWC’s consultations and workshops are only for currently enrolled UT students, anyone can view their resources and presentation documents.