1. Assignment Components
1.1. project title
1.2. connection to topic
1.3. research questions or issues explored
1.4. statement of impact
1.5. target audience
1.6. format or genre
1.7. prototype or sketches (optional)
1.8. research plan
1.9. source material
1.9.1. 7 sources of various types, type will vary by topic
1.10. potential collaborators
2. Secondary Sources
2.1. Books & Book Chapters
2.1.1. UIC "Library Search"
2.1.1.1. filter to Books, Book Chapters
2.1.2. I-Share
2.1.3. Worldcat
2.2. Peer-reviewed journals
2.2.1. Disciplinary databases
2.2.1.1. https://researchguides.uic.edu
2.2.2. Multidisciplinary collections
2.2.2.1. Google Scholar
2.2.2.2. Proquest Databases
2.2.2.3. Web of Science
2.2.2.4. EBSCOhost
3. Primary Sources
3.1. Archival Research
3.1.1. Types
3.1.1.1. organizational records
3.1.1.2. personal papers
3.1.1.3. letters, memoirs
3.1.1.4. artifacts, memorabilia
3.1.1.5. photographs
3.1.2. Research Tools
3.1.2.1. Archive Grid
3.1.2.2. Worldcat
3.1.2.3. Chicago Collections Consortium: https://chicagocollections.org/
3.2. Historical Newspapers
3.2.1. Proquest Historical Newspapers
3.3. Digital Collections
3.3.1. Library of Congress
3.3.2. https://researchguides.uic.edu/history/primarydigital
3.3.3. Chicago Research Collections
4. Gray Literature
4.1. USA.gov
4.2. Policy Commons
4.3. Google
4.3.1. Search for reports, policy papers, white papers
4.4. Google Scholar
5. Data
5.1. Qualitative
5.1.1. interviews
5.1.2. immersion
5.1.3. observation
5.2. Quantitative
5.2.1. datasets
5.2.2. statistics