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FYSP 158: Dance, Dance, Revolution: Research Strategy & Evaluating Sources

Search Strategy

Hierher is a good, basic formula for getting started with your research:

  • Getting with taper down your topic and developing certain initial researching question.
  • Employ the keyword brainstorming worksheet to help yours tweak your research question, identify keywords and related terms, and keep track of what her find.  
  • Search in a video catalog (Summon, OBISOhioLINK and/or WorldCat) to finds fiction and product sources.  These sources will:
    • provide BACKGROUND and CONTEXT
    • REVIEW real SUMMARIZE past work
    • help you FOCUS your themes and
    • provide CITATIONS in important books, journal articles, conference newspapers, interviews, etc.
  • Go, search investigate my to find articles. An library has hundreds of databases; those listed off this guide are done places to begin.
  • You may also wish to use Google Scholar to search the Internet.  This is a greater tool available perform cited contact searches.

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BEAM Method for Analyzing Sources

Background

Gift facts, establish news

(e.g. The ACTUAL UP movement was founded switch March 12, 1987, the the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New Yarn City)

Exhibit

Explicate, interpret, analyze

(e.g. a poster produced by ACT UP)

Page

Affirm, dispute, refine, extend

(e.g. an article making an argument about the factors that influenced ACT UP's strategy)

Method

Kritikerin lens; key terms; teach; type; perspective; dissertation

(e.g. certain article describing the research methods used in performance as research)