Blogpost 1 - Research Brief

 Research Topic:

For my assignment I will be researching the following topic:

‘Book Burnings’ and the History of Censorship

I plan to focus my research on book burning events, their reasoning, the different types of reasons for censorship from around the world, but also plan to then include research on the history of this topic, in Australia.

Research Outline:

For this research assignment I aim to research information based on the following components. The following list will be an outline for focusing my research for this assignment.

-          Book burning what is it?

-          Censorship of books, what is it?

-          ‘Book burning’ history

-          Censorship history

-          Further Reasons found for ‘book burning’ ceremonies

-          Censorship in Australia

-          Book Burning in Australia

-          How the past has affected the future

Search Strategies:

Below I have listed my search strategies, what I will plan to research and what possible resource materials I will use for each post.

Post 1 - Week 5

Research Brief

                           

Post 2 - Week 6

Topic:             Book Burning

-          What is it?

Topic:             Censorship of Books

-          What is it?

Topic:             Book Burning History:

-          To include a time line of major events of Book Burning through history

Possible Resources:

Book, online, pictures

 

Post 3 - Week 7

Topic:             Censorship history:

-          This will refer back to events listed in Post 2, and what reasoning’s of censorship have been found through history.

Possible Resources:

Books, online, images, and a video

Post 4 - Week 8

Topic:             Further reasons found for ‘book burning’ ceremonies

-          This will be in addition to events previously listed, were there other reasons for book burning and censorship, and were any deemed positive or negative.

Possible Resources:

Books, online, newspaper article, images

Post 5 - Week 9

Topic:             Book Burning and Censorship in Australia

-          Here I will look at events relating directly to Australia, and a history of Australian book burning and censorship.

Possible Resources:

Newspaper article, online, image

Post 6 - Week 10

Topic:             How the past has affected the future

-          I will look into how ‘Book Burning” and the History of censorship has related to current standards and regulations.

Possible Resources:

Books, Online, Journal, Image