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Contemporary Fiction: Research & Resources Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library [email protected] ENG 3113 Spring 2010

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Contemporary Fiction:Research & Resources

Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library [email protected]

ENG 3113Spring 2010

mailto:[email protected]
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Riddley Walker

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Assignment: Paper Two

• Thesis Driven

• Original and Argumentative Claim

• One-Two Secondary sources/ Scholarly Field

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Working Thesis

Showing evidence of Greek mythology/ correlate Punch eating babies to Kronos eating his children

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JSTOR

Boolean: Kronos or Cronos

Limiter: ArticlesLimiter: Folklore Journals

Science Fiction as Mythology

Thomas C. Sutton and Marilyn Sutton

Western Folklore, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 1969), pp. 230-237

Published by: Western States Folklore Society

Article DOI: 10.2307/1499217

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499217

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=wsfs
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QUICK REVIEW

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Best Research Strategy

• A common error is to look to a source for confirmation of an idea or an argument

• Do not start out to prove “X”• Start out to find out about “X”

• Look for support, not necessarily factual evidence

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Databases

• Using Keywords • Boolean

– And/Or/Not

• Using Limiters – Narrow or Specify your search

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Boolean

• AND = Narrow

• OR = Expand

• NOT = Exclude

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/wise/
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Research for Paper Two

• Interdisciplinary Approach– Looking for information on an idea– Not restricted to textual criticism or

references to the work under investigation

– In fact if you search by author or title in databases outside of literature databases…

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What Databases to Use

• Databases are subject specific

• Many are multidisciplinary– JSTOR, ASC, Project Muse

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JSTOR

• JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.

• Search by scholarly discipline

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ASC: EBSCO

• Use Boolean

• Limiters– Subject Thesaurus Terms– Subject

Use the Subject Limiters as Discovery Tools

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Writing Your Paper

• Writing Center– Located in the basement of the

library– Call for appointment #774-7083

• MLA Style– Style Sheets– MLA Handbook at Reference &

Circulation Desk– http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
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Questions?

• Contact me:

• Frederic Murray• 774-7113• [email protected]

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