# Research

In the Fall term, students will focus their study on one of Carleton's medieval folios (the art and science of *fragmentology*). The goal will be to gather information, contextualize your folio through additional readings/ research and present the folio to your fellow students at the end of term. 

1. **Gather information**. As we do exercises in class in first term, you will learn terminology and the means to gather different kinds of information about your folio. You will describe and transcribe a folio.
2. **Contextualize**. You will do research on your folio, trying to figure out more information about by reading secondary sources and comparing it to other digitized manuscripts.
3. **Present**. In the final class of first term, you will offer a quick (10 minute) presentation (oral + slideshow) describing your findings and what you found interesting about it. 
4. **Catalogue.** The final descriptions/transcripts of the folios will be put together into a shared catalogue (written using uniform structures and styles) in a jointly authored google document. Together we will write up a short introduction to the medieval material we study. 

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