{"id":831,"date":"2020-05-10T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=831"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:38:29","slug":"blog-post-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/05\/10\/blog-post-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of my research that I have found very troubling is organizing it. I have never been very good at organizing things, and it is especially hard when it is all digital without any physical folders to put things in. The upside of working digitally is that it is much harder for me to lose things. But I guess those are mostly me problems as opposed to actual research problems.<\/p>\n<p>A problem I have had that relates to this research project specifically as opposed to my terrible organization and planning skills is that it is difficult for me to find sources that help to support a thesis as opposed to just citing facts. For example, when I was researching and writing about George Antheil, it was very easy for me to find sources that backed up details like where he was born, who his parents were, when his works were published, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What was much more difficult for me was finding sources that actually backed up something more than just a research report. I guess I&#8217;d say that finding sources that advance an argument and using those to advance my argument is what I struggle with the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of my research that I have found very troubling is organizing it. I have never been very good at organizing things, and it is especially hard when it is all digital without any physical folders to put things in. The upside of working digitally is that it is much harder for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}