{ Emilia } wrote:

Nelly334 wrote:

{ Emilia } wrote:

Historical research isn't just about reading history books. It's about reading source material.
Nobody would take me seriously as a researcher if all I did was to read secondary literature.
What a genuinely stupid point to make.
European historians don't just copy what "the Yankees" write. They just come to the same conclusions based on the source material.
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Blah Blah, you read what was expected of you, you never actually looked for the truth, you looked for what everyone thinks is the truth, most professionals are hacks.
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Nobody "expects" me to read anything specific. Research is a pretty independent, autonomous process.
You clearly have no idea how all this works.
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slap together some thesis type thing, alter it enoguh to look original and turn it in...am i wrong?