Week 5 Discussion Guide: Tuesday
We will talk about how to find scholarly printed sources for your group research presentations about Hawthorne and other American writers of his generation. The main emphasis will be on using the online catalog and using the search engines and databases linked to peer-reviewed scholarly articles. You are required to use printed scholarly sources for this project. The obvious place to find them is in university press books on the library shelves.
This is not the same as 104's library session on general advice about research--the library's research experts will provide instruction in tools explicitly designed to help you complete the group research presentation for Thursday and your first draft of the Hawthorne paper, also due Thursday. After the library's instruction session is over, we will discuss how college-trained scholars' writing differs in process and intention from writing that succeeded in high school. If you did not already read "Making the Transition" before this literary analysis project started, be sure to click here to read some very important preliminary advice that will help you write your rough draft.