ACQUIRING AN ACADEMIC BIBLIOGRAPHIC CULTURE: SOME TIPS

My second-year students need to write a paper on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, in which they must cite a minimum of three secondary sources. I give them a list of 23 topics from which they can choose, with the only restriction that only a maximum of 3 students can choose the same topic. In this […]

ON THE USE OF SECONDARY SOURCES IN LITERARY RESEARCH: HOW FAR BACK CAN WE GO?

When I introduce second-year students to the basics of writing academic papers and they submit their first paper proposal (title, 100-abstract, 3-item valid academic bibliography) I warn them to use only post-1995 bibliography (perhaps I should update that to 21st century bibliography?). As I explain, even though in the paper they can use older sources, […]

SOBRE EL USO DE FUENTES SECUNDARIAS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN LITERARIA: ¿HASTA DÓNDE NOS PODEMOS REMONTAR?

Cuando presento a los estudiantes de segundo año los conceptos básicos de la redacción de trabajos académicos y envían su primera propuesta de trabajo (título, resumen de 100 palabras, bibliografía académica válida de 3 elementos) les advierto que usen solo bibliografía posterior a 1995 (¿quizás debería actualizar eso a la bibliografía del siglo XXI?). Como […]