HW for 11/20 (and lecture on Looking for Research Sources In An Organized Fashion)

1. Upload a revised and edited Ethical Evaluation Essay (will grade the electronic version during week off!).

2. Work Cited draft due by start of class to dropbox (again, will review during Turkey Break). I will assign part of the final research essay to be due after you bet back from Thanksgiving Break.

3. Read the lecture below, as well as the three handouts in Unit 6 of myLearning: these are all meant to give you strategies for how to organize and integrate multiple sources at different content-levels:

• "Organizing Sources Synthesis Chart"
• "Student Hot Take On Framing Evidence"
• "Research Paper Outline Template"

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Looking for Research Sources In An Organized Fashion (Review)

1. Have your Guiding Research Question Handy

Do Pride and Prejudice's Eliza Bennet's challenges of being seen as family property in represent the typical life path for young women in Victorian England?

2. Create/Develop a Research Word Bank  (Vocabulary=Ideas=What to look for!)

Empathy

Arranged marriage

Family property

Feminism

Victorian England

Conventions/ customs

Gender roles

Bridehood (added from searching sources)

Cultural compatibility

3. When researching…some basic tips

1. Combine different terms from Work Bank   ( add ‘and’  )

2. Put quotes around compound phrases like “arranged marriage” or “cultural compatibility”

3.  Add terms from scanning the lists and “eating the texts” and apply those to new searches.

4.  Create topical goals for the search—Are you doing a lit review, history review, looking for discipline-specific analysis (sociology), looking for theory-specific analysis, etc.?

·      Again, research is all about applying organization to your thought process. 

o   Time management and ability to find sources depends on ability to focus on different areas of research at a time; you do not want to be searching for “everything” at once.

5. Use different libraries and different databases.  

Google Scholar (linked through myLearning, too)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22arranged+marriage%22%2C+%22pride+and+prejudice%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&as_ylo=2000