Due Friday, October 8, by 11:59 p.m. on Canvas
Note: I strongly encourage you to make an appointment with Librarian Beth Carpenter to help you formulate your search strategy for bibliography. She can save you a lot of time!
Assignment #2: – For this second assignment I want you to:
1) find as many scholarly books and journal articles as possible that are closely related to your topic (avoid completely random internet website materials for now) and generate a complete bibliography including ALL sources related to your project so far. (Please cite them according to a commonly used citation system, see your text). As mentioned above, you may want to schedule an appointment with a reference librarian to get help, but you will probably need to spend a considerable amount of time finding good sources.
2) get your hands on, and examine closely 8-10 (or more) of these sources and write one or two sentences about what each one is about, particularly the main findings. (You can find out by skimming them closely, reading abstracts, conclusions, etc., you don’t have to read the whole thing now). Limit these sources to those very closely related to your project; don’t waste your time on sources “maybe sort of related;”
3) write one paragraph explaining precisely how your topic has become more focussed as a result of 1) and 2) above; and
4) write another paragraph describing exactly what you think your research strategy should be for the next three weeks, including some specific short-term goals.
Note the following repeated instructions. This must be roughly 3-4 pages, double-spaced (excluding bibliography mentioned in #1 above), sent here to Canvas with 1″ margins on all sides. Please number all pages; make a cover page and put your general topic title in all capitals at the mid-upper center of it and include your name, date, course title, professor, university (in that order) centered at the bottom of it.
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