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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:

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-The results of recording your research efforts.
+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.
-As you work on a project, the ''documentation'' is a record of the sources you used, the assumptions you made, the experiments you made, and the results you obtained. When you enter an finished project in an Arts and Sciences competition, documentation is almost always required.
 Some links to help you along:
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 * [http://members.tripod.com/nicolaa5/articles/reas.html On Critical Research and Documentation]
 * [http://www.nachtanz.org/SReed/document.html Documentation and Beyond: A Material Cultural Approach]
+* [http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/ How to cite your sources]
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