5 INSTRUMENTS OF DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2024

The instruments documentary research are all those tools used to collect information in this kind of studies.

For its part, documentary research is a type of inquiry based on the review of written and unwritten documents that are related to the purpose of the study.

Thorough analysis of the largest number of related documents will make the results more reliable. In this sense, documents of various kinds can be used: formal, informal, personal, institutional, and others.

In addition, documentary elements such as maps, photographs, posters, recordings, among other types of materials, can be included in the analysis.

Brief description of 5 documentary research instruments

Content tabs

The content (or work) file is one of the most used documentary research instruments. These allow the data that is obtained to be kept in an organized and visible way.

A content card consists of a card stock (usually 20 cm by 12.5 cm). In it, both the information found in the documents and the thoughts, comments and arguments resulting from their reading are recorded.

In general, these cards aid memory and are an effective means of classifying information.

Bibliographic files

Another of the documentary research instruments is the bibliographic file. This contains the bibliographic data of the documentary sources. In this registration unit, the various elements that identify the documents are noted.

Due to these documents are of a different nature, the data varies. Some of these elements include surnames and names of the author, title of the document, publisher and place of publication, among others.

Hemerographic records

Both bibliographic and newspaper files are used to record information. However, the former record data from books, and newspaper articles, from periodicals such as magazines and newspapers.

Basically, both contain the same elements. These are arranged alphabetically by the authors' surnames. These types of files are used to quickly locate sources and make the list of references in a research work.

File

A file is a file of cards arranged in a systematic way. They can be ordered according to themes, authors, titles, themes or others.

This allows organizing the data collected to carry out an investigation. In addition, it facilitates the process since it is not necessary to go over and over to the book or books from which the information was taken.

Registration of electronic pages

Advances in technology have facilitated access to other very powerful documentary research tools. Such is the case of electronic libraries that are the product of electronic data processing.

Thus, through the internet, a large amount of information that has been digitized and stored in the different electronic databases can be reviewed and analyzed. Search engines direct you to different sites where this information can be located.

However, the registration of these electronic pages allows them to be located and used at your convenience. This record must contain the detailed description of the content of the page and the access address.

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