Research

con­tin­u­ing research from Wednes­day tuto­r­ial, start­ing toward project 1

 
F 06-Feb    Research Log (cre­ate, share, update)

• Share Google Doc (use copy of tem­plate) — by 3pm
• Counts as blog entry / hybrid par­tic­i­pa­tion activity
• Search sev­eral data­bases for project com­po­nents
  via CULi­brary: Art Full Text, ART­bib­li­ogra­phies Mod­ern, Pro­quest Art His­tory, Inter­na­tional bib­li­og­ra­phy of the­atre & dance, Inter­na­tional index to the per­form­ing arts, Film and tele­vi­sion lit­er­a­ture index; 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)

 
» Research man­age­ment: use Google Docs (for Log) plus Zotero (or another app like Mede­ley or Ever­note; oth­ers?)

 
Ini­tial Research (focused search & browse) areas/categories:

— art­form, medium, tech­nol­ogy (hard­ware + software/process); his­tor­i­cal con­text;
artist (exam­ple), spe­cific art­works, aes­thetic movement/trends

M 09-Feb    Due: Anno­tated Bibliography

• 5 Schol­arly Sources (aca­d­e­mic jour­nal arti­cles or book chapters)
• 5 points; due class time; post doc in D2L
• Instruc­tions below

 
→ progress toward Project 1 (Instruc­tions page); dis­cuss M 09-Feb

Anno­tated Bibliography

5 points; due Mon­day 2/09; 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