Documentation

Arts & Sciences Documentation shouldn't be a big scary thing, it's simply a record of your research efforts: the sources you used, the assumptions you made, the experiments you made, and the results you obtained. It's a method of helping someone else learn what you did and follow along with you.

The 5 W's are key to documentation:

• What is it?
• When is it from?
• Where is it from?
• Who would have used/made/done it?
• Why did it exist pre-1600 and why did you make it?

Followed by:

• How did you do it?

Although documentation is always good to have it is also required if you're interested in entering an Arts & Sciences competition.

Some links to help you along:

• Documentation is not an Obituary
• Writing Documentation
• On Critical Research and Documentation
• Documentation and Beyond: A Material Cultural Approach