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interacting with secondary sources
interacting with secondary sources
A secondary source is information (typically a reading/document) that provides information about a primary source. A primary source is information that came directly from people who had a first-hand experience with a topic. Some examples include photographs, video recordings, or quotes directly taken from someone.
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My preferred method of annotating a text is with pen and paper, and that is exactly how I annotated Professor Cook's Humanities Core Handbook chapter “What’s Wrong with Museums? African American Artists Review Art History."
Cooks, Bridget R. “What’s Wrong with Museums? African American Artists Review Art History.” Humanities Core Handbook, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2022, pp. 138–151.
If I don't know a word/name while I am reading, I'll look up the definition and scribble a condensed version right next to it in the text. I also write down thoughts/questions I have right in the margins of the text.
For readings that are online, I typically use an chrome extension called kami that allows you to upload PDFs to your google drive and annotate them. I really like kami because every change is saved to your google drive.
Going back to Professor Cook's chapter in the Handbook, I thought it was really interesting. Anyone interested in African American art, and even art museums would particularly enjoy this chapter. Cooks shares her extensive knowledge of art history and the exclusion of Black art in art museums. Her argument in the chapter is that the inclusion of Black art in a white-dominated space has always been complicated.
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