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WRPR 182: The American Family in Historical Perspective (HC)

Writing Program 182: The American Family in Historical Perspective (Lapsansky-Werner) Fall 2024

Doing Research

This guide contains research tools and materials for your class projects.  Use the tabs on the left to navigate through the guide.  Resources with  *** may be especially helpful for your research.  

 

    Carol M. Highsmith, Family Day at the Alabama River Pulp Company, 2010 (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

 

Introduction

The resources here will provide you with academic material for your essay.  When you select and read articles, think about these questions:

  • Expertise - What is the author's training?  Have they published other material in this subject area?
  • Audience - Who are the intended readers?  Is it for the general public or for college students and researchers?
  • Discipline Focus - What subject approach does the author take?  Historical, religious, literary?  If literary, is there a special interest in a particular kind of interpretation, such as linguistic, psychoanalytic or gendered?
  • Documentation - Is there a bibliography for further reading?  Are there titles there that are new to you?
  • Date - If the article or book was published more than 10 years ago, can you find a more recent point-of-view?