Documentation

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:
 * Documentation is not an Obituary
 * Writing Documentation
 * On Critical Research and Documentation
 * Documentation and Beyond: A Material Cultural Approach
 * How to cite your sources