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elspethdixon) wrote2007-04-13 04:04 pm
elspethdixon) wrote2007-04-13 04:04 pm
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Research paper--T Minus 72 hours and counting.
I now have approximately 72 hours (not counting the four hours I'll be spending at work on Monday) to write a 25-30 page first draft for my research project.
It should be an interesting eperience in last-minute BS, since I've done way too little secondary source research, my time having been spent entirely in 19th century bank records.
On the plus side, I have discovered an 1867 Baltimore city directory that's allowed me to discover the occupations of about 1/4-1/3 of my banking committee members, giving me the ability to make tentative conclusions about the nature of the organizations' leadership and stretch my paper out another couple of pages.
I wish to marry John W. Woods and bear his Victorian children, since he organized his directory of Baltimoreans by color. All hail un-PC 19th century publishers--it's allowed me to do what would have been days of research in three hours, by cutting the number of names I had to go through down by about 70%, plus let me be absolutely certain I'm not getting some 19th century white guy with an identical name mixed up with a guy from my Freedman's Bank files.
It should be an interesting eperience in last-minute BS, since I've done way too little secondary source research, my time having been spent entirely in 19th century bank records.
On the plus side, I have discovered an 1867 Baltimore city directory that's allowed me to discover the occupations of about 1/4-1/3 of my banking committee members, giving me the ability to make tentative conclusions about the nature of the organizations' leadership and stretch my paper out another couple of pages.
I wish to marry John W. Woods and bear his Victorian children, since he organized his directory of Baltimoreans by color. All hail un-PC 19th century publishers--it's allowed me to do what would have been days of research in three hours, by cutting the number of names I had to go through down by about 70%, plus let me be absolutely certain I'm not getting some 19th century white guy with an identical name mixed up with a guy from my Freedman's Bank files.
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