In today's mentor led session we looked at types of sourcing and what sources were reliable. We talked about the differences between different types of sourcing such as Web Logs, for example blogs, Wikipedia pages and news pages - the BBC being given as a prime method of reliable data extraction.
We discussed the benefits of taking data from reliable and un-reliable sources and the dangers of each. For example, some information may log personal opinion and give misleading facts. Adding to this, we talked about how online sources from trusted sources , especially the BBC, specialised books or historical literature, which have some kind of referencing system to find the original source of information.
Common sites like Wikipedia can have great usefulness in extracting information. However they can be altered with false information and are sometimes slightly inaccurate. Also, when getting information from a Wikipedia page, the original reference must be used from where the information was gained in the first place, Wikipedia alone cannot be referenced.
The method of gathering information was also discussed. For example, skim reading a whole article to get a flavour is highly beneficial. Then, to read the article with ideas correlating to a specific idea is very useful. Perhaps to read an article about air combat but to focus only upon the stresses on the pilot with one read, and then - upon the second time of reading - to focus only upon the aircraft and what the source tells me about that.
During the next week and a half, I will start to compile all my data about the first section of my project, attaching a plan to the sheet so I can start to link information to each point in my first section to see where each piece of information will be relevant. I am hoping to also do this for the second section of my project, thus meaning by the start of school following the Christmas break I am hoping to have this procedure completed for the Second section of the project and a copious amount of knowledge relating to the final sections of my project and have a decision on what historical periods I will be focusing on pre-World War 2. This will be highly dependent on what my research reveals about how much progress was made in the few years between each outbreak of conflict - for example between Korea and Vietnam.
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