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STAGE 1
FRAMING
THE
INQUIRY
Establishing historical significance
Contextualising the time period and phenomena
Developing research questions
STAGES 2 & 3
SOURCE
ONE
&
TWO
ANALYSIS
Source analysis, historical language and moving beyond bias.
a. Initial reading
b.
Identification
&
attribution
(VanSledright,
2004)
c.
Decoding
&
defining
historical
language
d.
Judging
perspective
&
reliability
assessment
(VanSledright,
2004)
STAGE 4
EVALUATING
THE
EVIDENCE
WHAT
DOES
IT
ALL
MEAN?
Using inference and historical imagination.
What evidence is provided?
What answers does the evidence provide to our questions?
STAGE 5
REFINING
THE
INQUIRY
Do questions need tweaking based on evidence thus far?
Are questions answerable or too broad/narrow?
Do we have new questions based on new understandings?
STAGE 6
CORROBORATING
FURTHER
What evidence is limited thus far and requiring corroboration?
Other primary sources?
More sources from the same authors?
Repeat Stages2 & 3, as necessary.
Other
primary
sources
NO
YES
CORROBORATE
AGAINST
Other
primary
sources
STAGE 7
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Compare with secondary sources - do they help to shed light on evidence?
Provide wider range of context/source analysis.
STAGE 8
CREATING
AN
HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
Answering
the
question
new private understandings (Husbands, 2013, p. 26).