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Assignment #4
1. What is your topic?
2. From the list of Research Guides passed out in class, pick a research guide appropriate to your topic.
• Which guide did you use? (title and call #)
• By looking at the table of contents and browsing through the work, how would you describe the arrangement of the guide (how is it organized)?
• Does this arrangement work easily for finding information on your topic?
• Using the same research guide, select one of the titles listed that might be useful for your topic.
• What is the title? What page number did you find it on?
• Why do you think it might be valuable?
• Does SSU own it? If so, what is the call number?
3. Look up your topic in a subject encyclopedia/dictionary.
• Which encyclopedia did you use? (name and call number)
• Describe exactly how you found it (i.e. I did a subject search in Merlin for Theater and scrolled through many, many screens until I found a link for Theater encyclopedias.)
• Select an article or entry from that encyclopedia. Is there a bibliography at the end of the article/entry?
• Is the article signed?
• Cite the article you found using MLA citation style (HINT 4.6.8 in MLA guide).
4. Browse the reference stacks in a classification area that is NOT the primary classification area for your topic (i.e. if your topic is about American painter Winslow Homer's early works you would pick an area other than the Ns to browse, perhaps in the area of American history E/F).
• What area did you choose?
• Why?
• Find one reference source useful for your topic and cite it below in MLA citation style.
5. Using two resources, each from a different major classification area, look up one of the following words: deconstruction, symbolism, feminism, post-modernism, surrealism, structuralism, humanism, canon, paganism.
• Which word did you chose?
• What sources did you use? (include the call number)
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• How did you find the sources? Be explicit!
• Compare and contrast the different definitions.
6. What is a subject encyclopedia?