{"id":18426,"date":"2023-05-03T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-purpose-of-this-assignment-is-to-practice-academic-research-and-gather-sources-for-your-literature-research-essay\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:02:09","slug":"the-purpose-of-this-assignment-is-to-practice-academic-research-and-gather-sources-for-your-literature-research-essay","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-purpose-of-this-assignment-is-to-practice-academic-research-and-gather-sources-for-your-literature-research-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"The purpose of this assignment is to practice academic research and gather sources for your Literature Research Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">To help focus your topic idea, this assignment requires sources that could work for various critical approaches.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Find at least one source for each of the categories below<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Biographical Information about the Author<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A source with information about the author\u2019s life, such as an encyclopedia article<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Historical Relevance<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This can be a source relevant to the time period the story is set or when it was written.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A Social Issue relevant to the story or poem<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This source needs to focus on any social issue (such as class, race, gender, ageism, or cultural identity).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A work of literary criticism<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This is a source written by a literary scholar that evaluates or interprets a literary work. The library databases are the best place to find literary criticism.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Feel free to include more than one source that fits any of the above categories, especially if you already decided on a topic idea for your literature research essay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Source Details<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Start by selecting the sources that you will be using for your research. Make sure that they are relevant, credible, and reliable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Sources must be valid for college level writing. Journal articles from the library databases should be included.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Additional sources can be any type (website, documentary, personal interview, etc.) as long as they are relevant and credible. Do NOT use Wikipedia, Ask.com, About.com, Sparknotes.com, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Annotations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Below each source citation, you will write an annotation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Include:<\/span>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">a 3 to 5 sentence summary of the work (in third person, referring to the work in the present tense),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">a one sentence critique of the work (in third person, referring to the work in the present tense),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">and a one to two sentence evaluation of the work\u2019s usefulness to your research (in first person) here as one paragraph.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The paragraph should have a first line indent, but the citations should have a hanging indent.<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Repeat the above steps for each source\/citation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help focus your topic idea, this assignment requires sources that could work for various critical approaches.&nbsp;Find at least one source for each of the categories below: Biographical Information about the Author&nbsp;A source with information about the author\u2019s life, such as an encyclopedia article Historical Relevance&nbsp;This can be a source relevant to the time period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}