The Research Preparation for your oral history will help you in thinking about your participants, their experiences and the process of interviewing them. After meeting with them to find out some of the details of their life and experience, you should do some research so that you have some background knowledge about the historical, cultural and sociological forces that have surrounded the time frame of their lives. You should collect some academic research, you should read some first-person accounts, you should collect some literature from the popular press. You should turn in some summary paragraphs that draw together your key findings, a list of possible questions that you may include in your interview, and a list of works that you consulted. Please use MLA format or APA format in this citation. You will turn in your research via Google Docs, again sharing your document with comm.110.malone@gmail.com.
