Secondary Source Scavenger Hunt English 1F03 Spring 2021 PDF

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English 1F03: The Written World Prof. Crystal Beamer Spring 2021

Student: Navishka Brahmbhatt TA: Janice Vis-Gitzel Tutorial #: T-08

Secondary Source Scavenger Hunt (Tutorial Participation Activity)

Detailed Description & Guidelines Length: Completion of questions on this handout. Value/Weight: To be counted towards Tutorial Participation Grade Due: Tuesday, May 11 at 11:59PM (Avenue DropBox) **Please Read the Instructions Carefully**

Overview: This assignment has been designed as a brief active learning exercise that will work to supplement and reinforce related tutorial instructions beyond that of the virtual classroom. On Monday, May 10th, students’ tutorial lessons will include discussions and coaching on best practices for finding, evaluating, and choosing appropriate and relevant secondary source material when conducting academic research and/or literary reviews. A crucial skill for scholarly writing is being able to deftly navigate academic libraries in order to quickly search for and locate materials that will allow you to successfully complete class writing assignments that require the use of secondary sources. Since the Final Writing Assignment for this course requires that students incorporate these, this exercise will be a beneficial early step towards its future successful completion.

Expected Learning Outcomes: 1. To provide a structured activity that will allow students to take related tutorial lessons and discussions beyond the virtual classroom and to give them an opportunity to synthesize what they have learned. 2. To have students use critical thinking as they attempt to find, identify, and evaluate source materials (i.e., scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources; book reviews vs peer-reviewed academic articles). 3. To have students better learn to navigate and make full use of the suite of services and materials that McMaster University Mills Library offers online. This is especially important as we continue to experience a world-wide Covid-19 pandemic and our access as global scholars to the library’s physical resources is limited.

Description: To complete this activity, students are asked to download this document and complete the questions below to the best of their ability. They should then save their answers and upload their completed document to the appropriate Avenue assignment DropBox on or before the due date indicated above.

Exercise Questions: 1) Navigate to https://library.mcmaster.ca. Access & log in to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary). a) Choose one of the key terms that we've introduced in tutorial & lecture in this course so far, (i.e. non-human person, allegory, fable, etc) and search for its dictionary definition. Copy and paste the definition into the textbox below Sentience: “The condition or quality of being sentient, consciousness, susceptibility to sensation.” b) Click on the section of the OED page that allows you to cite the dictionary and choose the MLA 8th edition format option. Copy the citation and paste in the textbox below. "sentience, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/176053. Accessed 11 May 2021 2) Locate this e-book [Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies, Edited By Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford, Chloë Taylor] in the Library online catalogue and follow the steps to open it. a) Go to the third or fourth chapter of the e-book and take a screen shot (Copy & Paste the screenshot below).

3) Locate this article [“Mourning, Melancholy and the Millennium in Martin Jay, Julia Kristeva and Pablo Neruda”] using JStor: a) Use the citation tool on the page to copy the citation in MLA 8th edition format and paste it in the text box provided. Jelgersma, Jill E. Albada. “MOURNING, MELANCHOLY AND THE MILLENNIUM IN MARTIN JAY, JULIA KRISTEVA AND PABLO NERUDA.” Literature and Theology, vol. 13, no. 1, 1999, pp. 34–45. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23924906. Accessed 11 May 2021.

b) How many pages is this article? 12 pages c) Does it have an abstract? Yes

/ No

4) Return to the Library homepage. Locate and Click the "Citing Sources" section on the page. What types of citation management software does McMaster Library recommend? i) Zotero iii) Mendeley ii) End Note Basic iv)

5) Return to the Library homepage. Click on the "Course Reserves" section on the page. a) Find the definition of OER here and copy it in the textbox below Open Educational Resources (OER) as "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribu b) Find the Hotlink to "OER Information & Resources - Students" and click it. Once you've navigated to that page. Click on "OER Collection" on the red menu to the left and name one of the OER Library Collections to which we have access in the textbox provided. MERLOT c) In your own words explain why OER resources are so important. OER are especially helpful and neceassry due to cost reasons. They allow students to have access to free scholarly articles and journals which allows us to enhance our learning. It is a great way to educate oneself without worrying about money. 6) Return to the Library Homepage and log in to Academic OneFile. a) Search for [Poonachi: The Story of a Black Goat]. i) Did you get any hits on this? Yes / No If yes, copy one of the citations here: What type of source is it? b) Now try to search again using these search terms [Poonachi + Murugan] i) Did you get any hits on this? Yes / No ii) If yes, copy one of the citations here: "Murugan, Perumal: THE STORY OF A GOAT." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Oct. 2019. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A601050568/AONE? u=ocul_mcmaster&sid=AONE&xid=225e5c5e. Accessed 11 May 2021. c) What type of source is it? Book review/ short article i) Are the search results from (b) the same as the results from (a) above? Yes / No 7) Return to the Library Homepage and locate the “Research Help” tab. Click the dropdown menu and navigate to “How Library Stuff Works Video Tutorials”: a) Find and watch the brief (59 sec) video in the “Finding Articles” tab on how to search for an article using Project Muse.

i) What is one way that the video suggests that you can use to filter or narrow your search results?To filter your search you can limit the search to books or journals only b) From the same page, screenshot or download and insert below an image of the infographic "Google vs Google Scholar vs Library Database."

c) Did you know that you can submit requests for scans of single book chapters, journal articles, and/or similar materials from other academic libraries across Ontario, Canada, the US, and other countries if McMaster Library does not have or provide access to those materials? i) Under the “Research Help” tab at the top of the webpage, navigate to “Planning Your Research,” then click on “Library Basics – A Guide for New Users” and, finally, scroll down and click “More information on Borrowing from Other Libraries (ILL)” (1) In the space provided below, name the system that you use to submit these requests to our librarians and what each letter of the acronym means: RACER:Rapid Access to Collections by Electronic Requesting (2) What information do you need to Register for access to this system?

Library code, university name, department, location, contact information and payment method 8) Using this citation [O'Key, Dominic. "Animal Collectives." Style, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2020, p. 74], search either Academic OneFile or Scholar’s Portal to locate an electronic version of this article. a) Once you have located the article, either download it or open it in your browser. i) Screen shot or copy and paste the last paragraph of this article below. At both literary and political levels, animal autobiographies extend the realm of narrative possibility to the animal. This affordance of first-person narration imaginatively contests our current anthroponormative order. But it also risks de-collectivising animals, thereby foreclosing the liberationary horizons that animal studies critique makes possible. For all the advantages of animal autobiographies, they risk becoming fictions of individualization. "We" must therefore help make space for future we-narratives that realise a collective subjectivity without possessive individualism. Indeed, Barbara Foley once wrote that the collective novel "opens up possibilities for voicing revolutionary politics because it engages the reader in a procedure of critical totalization" (441). Collective novels, Foley argued, not only bypass a number of the problems generated by the individualistic premises of dominant novel forms, such as the Bildungsroman's fetishization of heroes and villains, but they also promise to disperse narrative subjectivity in order to "produce a knowledge of social relations that does not depend solely on what individual characters 'learn'" (441). Foley is, of course, speaking of the human collective. Hers is a study about proletarian literature and revolutionary subjects. But as I see it, liberatory aesthetics must not be the preserve of the human species alone. The creatures, too, must become free. b) Now using JStor, perform another search for this same article. i) Were you able to access it using this database? Yes / No 9) Returning to the Library homepage, access the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [ODNB] a) From the homepage of ODNB, copy one fact below from either their "Life of the Day" OR use the search bar to search for Marie de France and identify in her biography the name of one of the manuscripts that her Fables or Lais are recorded in. Kitchiner, William (1778–1827), epicure and writer, was baptized at St Clement Danes, Westminster, in May 1778, the son of William Kitchiner (d. 1794), and his wife, Mary, née Grave.

10) Looking through the list of sources below, fill in the textboxes provided to complete the following: a) Classify each source as one of the types below (you may need to click on the hotlinks or search one of the library databases in order to find & evaluate them). *Note: you can use each type as many times as you think is necessary & you may not need to use all of them. i. ii. iii. iv. v.

Peer-reviewed Article in an Academic Journal Published Book Collection of Scholarly Essays Monograph Book Review News Article

vi. vii. viii. ix. x.

Dissertation Useful for beginning research but not to cite Blog Book Chapter in a Scholarly Collection Encyclopedia Entry

b) Identify each as either Scholarly or Popular sources. Sources: https://www.animenation.net/blog/recommending-monstress/ Popular/,vii,viii https://monstress.fandom.com/wiki/Monstress Popular/viii https://shortstorystation.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/book-review-monstress-by-lysleytenorio/ Popular/iv https://maifeminism.com/my-body-isnt-my-own-war-monsters-and-matriarchy-inmonstress-2015/ Popular/vii,v Langs dal e,Samant ha,andEl i z abet hRaeCoody ,edi t or s .Mons t r ousWomeni nComi c s. Uni v er si t yPr essofMi s s i s si ppi ,2020. Sc hol ar l y / i x ,i i i Cooper ,Ay anni C.H.“ ‘ Ther eI sMor et oMeThanJ us tHunger ’ :Femal eMons t er sand Li mi nal Spac esi nMonst r es sandPr et t yDeadl y . ”Mons t r ousWomeni nComi c s, edi t edbySamant haLangs dal eandEl i z abet hRaeCoody ,Uni v er s i t yPr essof Mi s s i s s i ppi ,J ac k son,2020,pp.51–66. Sc hol ar y / i i

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy/First-publications#ref368527 Scholarly/ x McDowell, Andrea Rossing. Lev Tolstoy and the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2007, pp. 2-28, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/JCAS-Vol-5Issue-2-2007.pdf. Scholarly/ i https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/motifs/ Popular/vii https://search.proquest.com/openview/bd56a117e6f1fad2366ff9a4e954bd47/1?pqorigsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Scholarly/vi You have reached the end! Good Work!...