#sourcing

[sag-dab-sar]

This video has taught me just how complicated sourcing can be and how easily claims can become misinformation taken as fact. My ability to research and source feels so incredibly inferior. Its a good watch.

#sourcing #resources #research #youtube #I feel i should strive to be MUCH better #welsh history #wales #welsh #henry vii #house of tudor #british #medieval history #Cadwaladr #red dragon #flag of wales

[araekniarchive]

can you please help me find this one tumblr post about hoping that dying is like being carried back to your room after you fell asleep as a child? im looking everywhere. thx!!

this one? :))

#asks and answers #sourcing

[boxesforsys]

Zuko introject userboxes!

Click for quality!

#system userboxes #userbox #userboxes #system userbox #introject userbox #nav: source #nav: introject #system things #nav: avatar the last airbender #introject userboxes #fictive userbox #fictive userboxes #system stuff #system #introject #sourcing #source userboxes #source userbox

[school-of-roses]

-:✧Finding Sources✧:-

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss. The internet is a very large place, and countless times you’ll hear people telling you to do your own research.  However, informational literacy is hard enough without even knowing what to look for in a source, let alone how to read it.

What to Look for in a Source

There are a few good things to look for in a credible and reputable source. As can be inferred from the meaning of credible and reputable, a credible source is going to come from someone or something that is worthy of confidence, and a reputable source is going to be one that has a good reputation.

Peer Review in Academia

Peer review is the review of a scientific study, academic paper, or similar article by other members of their field with similar or greater credentials. The paper clears several other people who are actively trying to dash the hopes and dreams of the author by finding flaws with their design and reasoning.  I mostly kid, but it is a rigorous process that results in the paper being as high a quality as it can be.

Journals

Academic Journals are periodical publications where the most recent scholarship on a subject are routinely published. Often these are shortened to just “journals” or otherwise known as “scholarly journals”, “scientific journals”, or “peer reviewed Journals”  These are peer reviewed before being included, and themselves often a good place to search for information. 

If a source you find has been published in a journal, you’re in incredibly safe territory for reliable sources! There might be competing information from other scholars to review on the subject, but not only do these publications often include more reading material on the subject cited within, they are often followed by links to others who have cited them in their own writing on the subject.

University Publications

University Publications are also very safe places to look for sources.  While not themselves always a research paper, they are often the culmination of the knowledge that the university has gathered and reflect the most recent scholarship on a topic; least they risk making the university look bad. These are sometimes found on a university’s website, in a professor's online class notes, a textbook, or similar writing linked to someone in the field.

Primary Sources

Primary sources are often the gold standard for knowledge on a subject, assuming you can find something that qualifies. However, these are often hard to untangle as they can be dense, old, difficult to read or understand (and compared to an academic paper that’s saying something!) assuming they’re even in a language the reader understands.

Where to Find Sources

There are a number of places to find good sources.  A quick search engine check can do wonders, however they can be a whole mess, and even knowing what you’re looking for, they can make it harder to find good quality in the sheer volume.

Research search engines and open source libraries can make this process much easier. Google Scholar and JSTOR are good options, and if you’re really in a pinch you can look at Wikipedia. Many will tell you up and down that Wikipedia isn’t a credible source, but while there is some truth to that, you can click the numbers on the information you want to see the sources at the bottom of a Wikipedia page.  You can check these sources individually to see how you feel about them.  Wikipedia also has a “Talk” section where the contributors discuss what should be on each page that sometimes has additional sources or information that was not included.

How to Get a Library Card

Please go to your local library!  Most likely the librarian will be able to help you. You can also check the website of your local library to see if you can sign up. Often libraries will either have books on the subjects that interest you, or may even be able to order them for their collection. Libraries have also started providing eBooks and other technological services. If this is an option for you, it is highly suggested!

University Library Access

Students at most universities are automatically enrolled into the university’s library system. These people can careen around a paywall like it’s a sliding glass door between you and your dreams, and they have the keycard.  Find them, ask them, it only takes like 2 minutes of their time to download and send you whatever file you can’t get, especially if you link it directly.

Non-Academic Sources If you’re at your wits end and the only options for sources are news articles, blogs, or websites this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If this is a personal account of someone’s experience this can be a good thing! Take extra care with these and see if you can’t find multiple sources saying the same thing.  If something is true, most likely you’re going to find multiple people saying the same thing in different ways. However, if you do find multiple sources, look to make sure they aren’t just citing or copying one another in a hellish circle of plagiarism.

#studyblr #acadamia #sourcing #university #school of roses #information accessibility #witchcraft #magic #witchy #witchblr #basics #witch tips #witches #baby witch #how to find sources #Come check us out on Discord! #Link is in the pinned post! #public libraries #primary sources #peer review #academic journals #research #doing your own research #long post #a second post on how to better /read/ academic journals should be posted later this week! #enjoy

[somanysoundtracks]

I realized this art from the original booklet for “Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple” isn’t circulated enough, so here it is again.

#bungo stray dogs #dead apple #official art #bsd #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #akutagawa #atsushi #skeletons #it took me way too long to find this fucker #found it in pieces and pieced it together from there #across dozens of reblogs #manga #anime #sourcing

[cj2accountlost]

Hey so I am trying to source info I saw around a year ago. It was the fact that one piece characters look good because their dreams are being completed/ they are on the right path for their dreams and others look “ugly” because they are failing at their dreams/goals.

It was not from the good future bad future predictions.

An example would be why big mom looked pretty when with rocks pirates but in the future ugly.

Please help me with the sourcing! Even if it is just the sbs chapter! Or who the interview was with!

#anime #art #one piece #manga #anime and manga #sbs #one piece sbs #manga q&a #sourcing #one piece source #one piece interview #oda #oda onepiece #oda sbs #oda interview #help #anime help #manga help

[happywebdesign]

https://table-table.fr/

#Table #cooking #playful #products #responsible #quality #sourcing #linge de table #serviette #set de table #typography #type #typeface #font #Union #2022 #Week 28 #website #web design #inspire #inspiration #happywebdesign

[heartnosekid]

Hi, I was curious if you had any tutorials or tips for finding good (and relevant) stimmy videos for places like youtube and instagram? I want to make more of my own gifs for specific boards but I really have no idea how to find relevant videos for them. There are so many videos on youtube and instagram too, it seems kind of overwhelming to just try keywords without really knowing what may end up good or not. (instagram also seems harder to search in general, but I don't use it that much.) If you could give some advice I'd really appreciate it!

hey!! so i don’t really know how to summarize how i find videos to gif, but here’s a few steps i took over time to find the resources i already have!!

1. i found some big names on instagram that regularly produce stimmy content, like slimeobsidian, nabong_cafe, lindseybakedthis, knockoutdice, sheri_wilson, momoslimes_, sand.tagious, thesoapsophisticate, d0peslimes, dazzling.bodyshop, sweetjosiebakes, hobopeeba, oracle_bakery, & y.na__ and i regularly gif their content!

2. and i browsed the suggested accounts associated with those i listed! also the discover page should be pretty rife with cool content after following a bunch of accounts like the ones i listed, so you could also use that to find resources

3. there are also accounts like natgeo and natgeowild that regularly tag the photographers and videographers that contribute to their content, whom also post a lot of their own content, which gives more to the animal / nature side of stim stuff

4. another tip is to just look through the stim tag here on tumblr and check out the linked sources from other stim posts

5. as for youtube, i rarely use it to get stuff to gif but the recommended videos are usually more helpful than instagram’s. if i’m looking for something specific, i typically just try keywords like organizing, iceberg slime, color coding, circus / carnival / waterpark tour, etc just to name a few

6. another thing, if you’re at the end of your rope, you can search colors or items or animals in instagram reels or youtube shorts, like literally just typing in “pink” or “lolita fashion” or “sea slugs” into the reels or shorts search just to see what comes up, sometimes it’s useful stuff!

lastly, ALWAYS credit the creator directly regardless of if they allow reposting and ALWAYS respect the creators who do not want their content reposted!!!!

#stim #advice #sourcing #resources #ish talks #anon

[postcard-from-the-past]

Sourcing water on the street on the affluent Rue Royale street in Paris during the 1910 Great Floods

French vintage postcard

#street #historic #great floods #water #photo #briefkaart #great #vintage #floods #sepia #sourcing #photography #rue #carte postale #paris #postcard #affluent #postkarte #postal #tarjeta #ansichtskarte #french #old #ephemera #rue royale #postkaart #royale #1910

[fashion4standusers]

ok so the jesus jockstrap took a little digging bc the original photo is not tinted blue, but the source seems to be jockstrapsofpeace on wordpress. i haven't done a full research bc i'm in a bit of a rush, but there's an interview on the site that seems interesting

thank you!!! sourcing is always a massive help :)

#arr-jim-lad #ask #not fashion #sourcing #ffsu #txt

[sag-dab-sar]

Using Internet Archive & OpenLibrary

🔹The Internet Archive & OpenLibrary are completely free

🔹You don't need any card details to sign up

🔹You can log in via google or sign up with email

🔹Once you've done this you can borrow books for "1 hour", but you can just keep borrowing if the time is used up (unless its a very popular book, I wouldn't know how that works)

🔹You Internet Archive account will also be used for OpenLibrary

🔹FAQ for borrowing:

🔹FAQ for searching:

🔹Though usually I type: [book name] internet archive , into a search engine and often it comes up, either as the the reader or sometimes the PDF

#internet archive #resources #sourcing #library #open access #michibooks

[araekniarchive]

hii !! do you by any chance know the poem / quote that's about dropping the "i" while saying "i love you" and shortening it to just "love you"? iirc it says something about taking yourself away from the action of loving (?). i've definitely seen it featured in a couple of web weaving posts on here. sorry if this doesn't make any sense haha!

Yes! It's from Self-Portrait at 28 by David Berman :)

#sourcing #asks and answers #david berman

[a-sleepywitch]

Witchcraft & Sourcing;

How to judge a Source

One of the most common advice you'll see concerning witchcraft and learning is to read a lot, but this can be a very daunting task for beginners, especially when attempting to figure out what can be considered a good or a bad source. Because of my major, I deal with a lot of historical sources and modern interpretations and studies of those sources. I'm by no means an expert on the topic, but I wanted to raise some of the common issues one can encounter with sources, especially older ones, as they tend to be very glorified within the witchcraft community. My goal is not to paint a black and white image of what a good vs a bad source is, because, in a lot of cases when dealing with historical texts, it's a complicated mix between the two. Rather, I hope the main takeaway from this is that reading sources critically is a skill.

What is a source?

So what is a source? In witchcraft, we talk about sources as the thing we get our information from. Thing can sound a bit vague, but it doesn't have to be texts. Music, buildings, archaeological material, clothes, etc. can also be sources. This post will mainly talk about textual sources, however.

What is the problem with sources?

The biggest problem with sources, particularly texts, is that discerning how trustworthy it is can be very complicated, if not nigh impossible at times. It's important to note that just because something is written and it's old does not mean that it's always a good source. It depends on what you're looking for; if you're looking for how laws in 16th century France operated, then reading historical records of those laws is a good source. But do those laws necessarily indicate how people behaved? Not really. At most, it's a good way to figure out what was considered good or bad behaviour, and from there we can try to discern overarching themes and values. But just because something is deemed illegal in a text does not mean people didn't do those things, nor does it imply that it must've been a problem.

(For example, just because a law document states that sacrifices during rituals is illegal doesn't mean that people didn't do those things. But it also doesn't necessarily imply that people used to do those things before those laws were in place. For all we know, they might've seen other cultures perform ritual sacrifices and disapproved of it, and decided to write down a law forbidding it as a precaution.)

Point is that discerning how valid, reliable and overall good a source is can be very complicated, and it's one of those skills that I find to be most valuable in, not just witchcraft, but practically any field of interest that requires lots of reading and research. So to hopefully help anyone who's having trouble with judging a source, here's a list of things to keep in mind when reading to engage with a text critically!

Things to keep in mind when reading a source.

1. Historical Context

This is the basic principle you'll want to abide by. What is the context behind this text? What is society like when and where this text was written? What were the cultural norms of the time; does this text fit into those norms or diverge from them?

2. Who is it written by?

Who wrote the source? What is their agenda? What is their background? How can their age, culture, sex, religion, etc. impact this particular text? Is this the original text, or is this an interpretation by someone else?

3. Who is it written for?

Who was this source written for? Who had access to this material at the time? Who could even read this text at the time of its conception, both in terms of access and in terms of literacy?

4. Primary vs Secondary sources

Is this a firsthand account (primary), or is it a secondhand interpretation of an original source (secondary)? Keep in mind that these definitions are not static. For example; let's say I'm out on a walk and I trip, and you were there to witness it. If I told the story, I'd be the primary source, meanwhile you'd be considered a secondary source. However, if I were to die while you were still alive, you'd become the new primary source for that particular story. It's important to keep in mind that not all primary sources have always been primary sources, and may have been secondary sources that due to current circumstances have become primary sources. Likewise, a primary source is not inherently better than a secondary one, as this depends on what you're trying to get out of the source.

5. Facts vs Interpretations

Is the information presented factual and objective? Or is it an interpretation and subjective? Can I discern which parts are facts, and which parts are interpretations? Does the author intentionally blur the lines between the two?

6. Language & Translations

Is this a translation of an original text? When was it translated? Who translated it? How difficult is the original language to translate? How does it compare to other translations of the same text?

7. What are you looking for?

This is important to keep in mind when reading through sources. What are you actually looking for? Are you looking for the origins of something? Are you looking for a modernization of a certain practice? Are you looking for new perspectives? Your criteria for sourcing should adjust to whatever it is that you’re looking for!

8. Age =/= Trustworthy

My last and biggest advice: just because something is old, does not mean it's trustworthy. I know that we have a certain fondness for old, dusty books that have persevered through time and contain this sort of ancient yet timeless energy, because I’m one of those people, but depending on what you’re looking for, the age of the source can actually be to its detriment. Of course, if your goal is to find the origins or first mentions of something, age will naturally play an important part, but otherwise you may want to refrain from romanticizing old books too much, as most of them were certainly not held to any high academic standards of reliability. Generally, these things need to be judged on a case-by-case basis!

On a final note, I’d like to point out that just because a source is imperfect or even bad does not mean you shouldn’t read it. If I have to be perfectly honest, I don’t think there is such a thing as a perfect source, and if there is, I have yet to read one. Rather, most sources fall on a spectrum, somewhere between good and bad, and reliable and unreliable. My point is that you should always approach any and all sources with a critical mind regardless of its quality, so these are some things you should be looking out for!

‿︵‿︵‿︵୨˚̣̣̣͙୧ - - ୨˚̣̣̣͙୧‿︵‿︵‿︵

◛⑅·˚ ༘ ♡ I’m always open for asks and messages, so don’t be afraid to reach out! Just keep it respectful, please :>

#witchcraft #witchblr #beginner practitioner #beginner witch #source #sourcing #research #grimoire

[sophaeros]

me when i email a magazine just to ask for the source of a photo they tweeted once in 2016

#sophaerostxt #sourcing

[acrylicmirror-goodsense]

Day 1 at 133rd Canton Fair🥳 -Date: Apr. 15th-19th, 2023 -Booth No.: Area B 10.2A 9-12, B13-16, Area C 15.4 H01 -Add.: No. 382, Yuejiang Zhong Road, Guangzhou, China

#cantonfair2023 #acrylicmirror #AluminumCompositePanel #sourcing #GlobalTrade #b2b #Youtube

[funnyao3]

Intro

On this account I post funny lines from AO3 fics that my friends or I have read. Please feel free to submit your own!

Sources of the quotes are at the end of the post with the fic and author name and then linked in the source. If you are submitting a quote and know it, please include the source (name of fic and author or link) and the fandom that it comes from.

Also, if you are one of the authors and want a quote to be taken down or cited differently, please let me know.

Thanks!

#intro #sourcing #ao3 #out of context ao3