Reaching Lifelong Goals as a Nontraditional Student

I did some more digging in the wonderful Non Trad website I told everyone about a while back called Howtostudy.org.   This is a great website, and take some time to look at the great links that are there.   I found two specific ones for History Majors.   Being a Non Traditional Student majoring in History, I was drawn to a couple of great sites.  These are great resources for study skills, primary and secondary sources and some other goodies.

The History Guide compiled by John Kries.  Is a wonderful site with great information.   He also includes a number of his own lectures about European history.   Of special note is his comprehensive autobiography where he chronicles his own journey toward a graduate degree in History.  The site has an extensive list of primary sources to be found on the internet.   I will be digging through those sites for some time to come.    This is a  stand alone site and not a blog, so this information is out there for  everyone to utilize.

Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students by  Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College.   Here is another great site for any student, but it’s focus is on History.   Information on research, writing papers, evaluating sources and historical arguments.   This is quite a comprehensive website and I am very impressed.   The information on how to evaluate a historical arguments is very well thought out and you really get a feel for what researching history is all about.   Again, I will be using this site often during my Non Traditional Student journey over the next couple of years.

Non Traditional Students need all the help they can get sometimes.   I hope that as this blog site grows, I can help my fellow non trads in many ways.   Being out of school for 30 years, lots of things have changed.    One big change is the Internet.   The wealth of information on the net is staggering….sorting out the good from the bad info is the key.   You can find online copies of many primary source documents.   Years ago, the only way to research this material was to travel or mail requests all over the globe.   Now, many Universities have their collections online, you need only to search in the right spot…

I will be adding more resource sites to my blog.   If I feel that a fellow Non Traditional Student can benefit in some way, I will pass the information along.     Keep enjoying Summer, some of you will be back in school in just a couple of weeks.   I still have most of the month of September before my Fall Term starts here in Oregon.       Until next time….

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