English : English 331 Literatures of the Romantic Period

Developing a research topic

Video: Mapping your research ideas
Consider essay topics for this assignment and then watch this video. Have a blank sheet of paper handy or open a Word document to brainstorm your ideas as you watch it.

Worksheet: Mapping your research
Use this worksheet to map your research after thinking about the topic you've picked and watching the video. The second page provides examples of two ways to organize your ideas in Box 4.

Developing a search strategy

Video: Turning your ideas into a search strategy
The beginning of this video will be a brief review of what you've already done. But it quickly gets into how to use that work in a database.
Guide: Look at an example of how to fill in a concept worksheet
Look at all 4 steps and the final search phrases to use in database search boxes.

Worksheet: Turn your ideas into a search strategy
Fill in this worksheet to prepare some potential database searches.

Searching for literary secondary sources

MLA International Bibliography
Search for scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations. Covers international literature, linguistics, and folklore research. Contains some full text. Includes links to titles from JSTOR language and literature collection.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
JSTOR
Includes full- text scholarly journal articles on literature topics as well as the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
Proquest One Literature
[Replaces LION] Contains multiple reference materials such as author pages, book reviews,and historic literary criticism as well as journal articles, ebooks, primary texts and more.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
Gale Literature
Provides access to biographies, summaries, and overviews. It also contains full text literary works, journal articles, criticism, and reviews.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

USearch
Search for items on your topic, many of which are owned or subscribed to by the library. Includes books, journal articles, reviews, and more.

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