"A deceptively modest name for a complex technology that has come to play an evidentiary role in scholarship”

"The search terms I have chosen encode a tacit hypothesis...and I feel my hypothesis is confirmed when I get enough hits.”

- Ted Underwood, Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago

Exhibit (Evidence)

Background

Materials used to establish facts. Implies membership in a community based on shared references.

The materials to be analyzed, examined or interpreted.

Argument (Authority, Antagonist)

Sources you engage with or respond to directly by countering, extending or refining the claims made. You engage in conversation. They-Say....

Method (Model)

Sources from which you borrow an approach, key concept, idea, or method, or sources after which you model your own approach to inquiry, writing, or argument.