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Assignment #7

State your topic in a sentence or two (a thesis statement).

1. Using the list of print indexes passed out in class and the list of electronic indexes (databases) available from the Database and Periodicals Index webpage, name both print and electronic indexes will you choose to find information for your topic? Which one do you think will be the most helpful?

2. Using the same lists of print and electronic indexes from question 1, which would you choose to write a paper entitled "A Critical Analysis of Film and Television Adaptations of the Works of Tennessee Williams?"

3. What do you think is the most important thing to be aware of when selecting a print or electronic index and why?

4. Using the electronic version of MLA Bibliography

a. Do a keyword search for death. What are the results?

 

b. Do a keyword search for Hamlet. What are the results?

 

c. Combine the two searches so you have a keyword search for death and Hamlet. What are the results?

e. Do a subject search for death and Hamlet (remember, by clicking on the search fields icon, you will get a list of all the field codes, including subject.).

1. What is your search string?

 

2. What are the results?

5. Using the electronic version of MLA Bibliography, do a search for articles by Salman Rushdie about censorship.

a. How did you structure your search?

 

b. What are the results?

7. Using Wilson Art Abstracts,

a. How many records do you retrieve when you enter the terms armory show?

 

b. How many records do you retrieve when you narrow the search by adding the term 1913.

 

c. If you were asked to do a search on the armory show of 1913 what search string would you use?

 

d. If a friend asked you for help finding articles about the Armory Show of 1913, what advice would give him/her? Would you tell this person to use print or electronic indexes, or both; etc. Be explicit!

8. Using any subject database(s) and/or any subject print index, find 3 citations appropriate to your topic and cite them below using MLA citation style.

1. Database or index used:

search strategy or terms used:

citation:

2. Database or index used:

search strategy or terms used:

citation:

3. Database or index used:

search strategy or terms used:

citation: