Research Writing Assignment for Friday 2/10/12

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Chapter 17 in A Short Guide to Writing About Literature, "Writing a Research Paper," provides excellent models for bibliographic citation of various types of sources, a sample literary research paper, a draft editing checklist, and advice for sites (both online and print) to begin searching for secondary sources. This chapter is an especially important guide as you continue your preliminary research and move from the proposal to drafting an essay.

Assignment: In a two-paragraph comment to this blog post, identify the resource site that has proved most useful for you. I'm hoping that we can share the particular online databases, print bibliographies, genre companions, etc., that have become our go-to sites whenever we need to find additional research on our topics. Your comment should include a way for others to find this site, explain how it has been useful to you, note any disadvantages, and include your recommendations for how it might be useful to other literary researchers.

In order to post a comment here, you must have an online account compatible with Blogspot. You may use either an existing online account like your SU gmail account or set up a new one expressly for online work in this class. You may use whatever online moniker you prefer (barring the offensive). After the semester is over and final grades issued, you are free to disable any online account you used for this class. This assignment counts as one participation grade and is due by midnight on 2/10/12.