Research and Bibliography
Fall 1999
Kate Liu, ; IACD, Engilsh Department
Course Description

Student Work:      Real-Time Discussion Area

Research and Bibliography Main Page
Tentative Syllabus (Revised after the 921 earthquake)
  For the complete titles and sources of the following abreviated ones, please go to course description.
 
 Date
Topic
Assignment
  * General Introduction to Research on Internet and in the library. 
-- to be done when there is electricity
  • Read Complete Guide Chap 1 Finding a Topic and Chap 2 Gathering Data
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    10/5   I. Preliminary Research and Forming Ideas

    Discussion: How to find a topic?
  • Go to relevant link page and start to do research online.
  • Read Problems Chap 1 & 2; use MLA Bibliography,  and one other reference tool from Chap 1, one from chap 2, to solve one (each) of their research problems.
  • Visit one of the libraries in Taipei area.
  • Find a Topic. 
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    10/12
    • Report on basic reference tools. 
    • Discussion of problems in research and/or about your chosen topics.
  • Read Problems Chap 3 & 4; use one reference tool from each one (each) of their research problems.
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    10/19 II. Extensive Research, Evaluating/Sorting Resources and Finding a Question 
    • Report on useful bibliographies, abstracts and websites. (including MA thesis in Taiwan)

      • * Hand in your topic with a working bibliography online (don't worry about format yet)
  • Continue our discussion online about useful online resources.
  • Read Complete Guide Chap 5 
  • Read How Not to Plagiarize; Cf. Research paper pages on comp. databank
  • Read two books on Literary History related to your author, (due online Oct 26)
    1. take notes and practice quotation --hand it in word doc file to the assignment area .
    2. compare their presentation of your author or the history of that period--to the discussion area.
    10/26
    • Discussion: 

      • --How do we sort and record the various materials we have collected? 
    • --How do we take notes, quote and avoid plagiarism?
  • Read Complete GuideChap 4 
  • Getting local resources: STICNET and other online CD Rolms.
  • Get three journals you find useful in your field. 
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    11/2
    • Report on the journals and reviews
  • Start, if not continue, your project of Annotated Bibliography.  Hand in three entries online by (11/1)
  • Glimpse through all the materials you have found so far to find out about the trends and controversies in your chosen field. 
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    11/9
    • Report on the scholarly trends you have found.
    • Discussion: 

      • --How do we evaluate resources?
      --What do we do when the resources are not available in Taiwan?
    • --How do we find out the history and trends in the scholarship of our target author?
  • Read Complete GuideChaps 7 and 8 
  • Read MLA Chaps 3-4 
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    11/16
  • Hand in the proposal first draft and read one of your classmates'.
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    11/23
    (mid)
    • Discussion: What is feasible project with a clear tentative thesis ?
  • Keep on working on your proposal+bibliography project
  • Read Altick Chap 3
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    11/30 III.  Critical Approaches and Issues
    • Traditional Approaches
  • Read Open Chap 7
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    12/7
  • Buck's Report  on Critical Issues(I): close reading, autonomy of the text, the question of meanings & Modernist Studies
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  • Read Open Chap 8; Redrawing 
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    12/14
    •  Grace's Report on Critical Issues(II): gender & Feminist Criticism
    • Jessie's Report on Sedgwick on gender criticism
  • Read Open Chap 9;  " 
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    12/21
    • Lily's Report  on Critical Issues(III): deconstruction & Lily's and Julie's report on American Studies since Civil War
    • Julie's report on Cultural Criticism
  • Read handout 
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    12/28
    • Ethan's Report  on Critical Issues(IV): the issues of class and ideology & Marxist criticism
  • Read Open Chap 11
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    01/04
    • Ally's Report  on Critical Issues(V): the reconstructions of history & Renaissance Studies
    • Hosanna's Report on Critical Issues(VI): the author as daydreamer & the criticism of Gothic literature
  • Read Open Chap 12
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    01/11
    • Jessie's Report  on Critical Issues(VI): race and re-visions of English and English literature (postcolonialism)
    		 Read MLA  Chap 1; Altick Chap 2. "The Spirit of Scholarship"
    01/18
    Final review and Discussion
    Final Project due