Identify the creator, the date or time period, and, if possible, the purpose and intended audience.
Step 1: “Source” the source. Identify the creator, the date or time period, and, if possible, the purpose and intended audience. We also call this identifying the provenance of a document. Who created the document? When was it created? Why was the source created? Who was intended to see the source? Was the document public, … Read more