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French Studies – 2 nd Year Undergraduates: Researching Your Essay

French Studies – 2 nd Year Undergraduates: Researching Your Essay. Tutorial 2: Searching in the MLA International Bibliography. In this Tutorial you will be shown how to…. Find your way to a menu of relevant data-bases on the Library web pages Conduct some searches on MLA

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French Studies – 2 nd Year Undergraduates: Researching Your Essay

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  1. French Studies – 2nd Year Undergraduates: Researching Your Essay • Tutorial 2: Searching in the MLA International Bibliography

  2. In this Tutorial you will be shown how to… • Find your way to a menu of relevant data-bases on the Library web pages • Conduct some searches on MLA • Distinguish between bibliographic and full-text results • Operate a link resolver (WebBridge) between a bibliographic record and a full-text source

  3. Pitching your search correctly • Are you using a few general terms which include too much? • Are you using too many narrow terms which exclude some useful results? • Remember to juxtapose variant terms to cover your topic (ie fiction or novel, women or feminine, drame or scène).

  4. From the Resources page, select your subject

  5. Click here for a menu of vital databases

  6. You can now open the MLA Bibliography

  7. To get the best from MLA, go to ‘Advanced Search

  8. A choice of specialist fields

  9. Your topic is… • You are looking for some material on: ‘Epistolary aspects of Joachim Du Bellay’s Les Regrets’

  10. Reduce the topic to keywords and note the fields being used

  11. These are the results. Open item 1

  12. Your terms are highlighted in the abstract and there is a link to full text

  13. Your next search topic… • You now want some material on: ‘The politics of friendship in French sixteenth century literature’

  14. Use truncation for the basic terms, specify French as a “National Literature” and express 16C as numbers

  15. Scroll down your results…

  16. You open item 4

  17. MLA is not full text but WebBridge might find a Warwick link

  18. WebBridge has found a source in Project Muse

  19. You can now see the text

  20. Key terms are highlighted in the text

  21. Remember the strategy for finding article texts… • First investigate whether a full-text link is available (via WebBridge or by searching our catalogue) • If not, check if Warwick holds a print set • If not, find out whether your tutor will give you permission to use Document Supply (a free service to you)

  22. Your next search is for… • ‘French twentieth-century women writers and the role of memory’

  23. This is how the search is set out… Note that the term ‘role’ has been omitted as not distinctive enough – remember to drop all unnecessary words or phrases

  24. Scroll through the results

  25. You tick 2 records to save them for your bibliography

  26. You can add to the list here as you continue to search…

  27. Or email, print or export right away…

  28. If you email yourself note what the material is

  29. …or select the citation software you use

  30. If you are still a bit unsure… • Go through the Tutorial once more • Look carefully at how searches are set out on the screen • Practise some live searches of your own • Ask for further help • Contactpeter.larkin@warwick.ac.uk

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