over week­end: begin research (browse + search; start log; check 2 data­bases)
— post short blog entry detail­ing 1 search activ­ity (specify)

 
M 22-Sep   Activity/focus: “Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­acy” skills cont’d

» Dis­cuss “best prac­tices” + research activ­i­ties (in-progress log, toward Anno­tated Bib.)
— includ­ing results from try­ing search + browse + resources
via CULi­brary: Art Full Text, ART­bib­li­ogra­phies Mod­ern, Pro­quest Art His­tory,
Oxford Art Online (“Includes the Grove Dic­tio­nary of Art, the best source for ency­clo­pe­dia entries on artists, styles, peri­ods, mate­ri­als or tech­niques.” + Ency­clo­pe­dia of Aes­thet­ics + The Oxford Com­pan­ion to West­ern Art)
 
— pro­tip: off-campus access help

 
» for “Research Log”: use Google Docs (rec­om­mended), Ever­note, Zotero (other appli­ca­tions?)

Ini­tial Research (focused search & browse) areas/categories:
— art­form, medium, tech­nol­ogy (hard­ware + software/process), his­tor­i­cal con­text
optional: artist (exam­ple), spe­cific art­works, movement/trends

 
W 24-Sep   Con­tinue research: update log (and share with GH)

• class prepa­ra­tion: have 1 aca­d­e­mic arti­cle to dis­cuss (read/notes)
  — research with focus (keywords/abstracts) + in addi­tional areas (7 cat­e­gories)
   
  » Activity/Groups: eval­u­at­ing com­piled mate­ri­als (toward bibliography)

 
 
Blog entry (due Thurs): dis­cuss 1 aca­d­e­mic arti­cle from research

— dis­cuss how might use in project (toward anno­ta­tion in Bib.)
• Con­tinue research (+ update log!)

Heil­brunn Time­line of Art History

 
 
F 26-Sep   Read: excerpts from Short Guide to Writ­ing About Art (Bar­net) — PDFs in Drive + D2L

— read for discussion/activity: Art His­tory Paper (brief guide) PDF

» Activ­ity: Essay preparation—organization (cre­ate draft out­line)
→ Pur­due OWL pages: Out­lines
look­ing ahead: Pur­due­OWL on Using Research & Essay Writ­ing

 
Due (S 9/28): Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy (5 points) — instruc­tions below
 
 

Anno­tated Bibliography

5 points; due Sun­day 9/28; sub­mit doc in D2L

 
» Research for Project 1:
anno­ta­tions of 5 schol­arly sources (e.g. aca­d­e­mic arti­cles) toward ana­lytic essay.

• Include full cita­tion for each entry

 

• Anno­ta­tions = 3 sen­tences (min./max.)
  Dis­cuss the resource con­cisely and precisely:

  — Con­cisely state the main point of the arti­cle
  (can sum­ma­rize briefly; restate the main point/idea in your words)

  — Iden­tify the most use­ful and/or unique qual­ity of this source
  (“eval­u­a­tive” in this sense)

  — What is the contribution/value to your research project? (most impor­tant)
  Pro­pose how you might/plan to use this source in your essay
  (be spe­cific, even if speculating)

  — optional: dis­cuss any lim­i­ta­tions or con­cerns; if it is suitable/relevant to your essay (qual­ify if a “non­tra­di­tional” source); or/and what more you might need to research sub­se­quently
   

• All dis­cus­sion should be your com­men­tary (no need to quote author) — con­sid­er­ing the source mate­r­ial for this purpose/assignment; reflect­ing thought­ful and focused research (infor­ma­tion lit­er­acy).
   
  — sug­gested: try includ­ing a vari­ety of sources, address­ing sev­eral of our research areas/categories (rather than 5 about 1 topic like “medium” or “his­tor­i­cal con­text”).
  Maybe one source addresses mul­ti­ple areas? (e.g. artist + spe­cific works) Be sure to iden­tify this in your anno­ta­tion.
   
  • For addi­tional guide con­sult this Pur­due OWL page