ENGLISH 101.  ACADEMIC WRITING
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Getting Research Help from Hacker's Web Site 

Diana Hacker maintains an online companion web site for A Pocket Style Manual. We will discuss several different parts of this site in the weeks ahead, but you can browse everything there at any time. To gain access in some portions of this site, you will be prompted to enter your name and your instructor's email address. If that happens, use Dr. G's address at gutchess@englishare.net. 

For Lesson 13, browse the portion of the site called Research and Documentation Online. Especially examine the "Humanities" or "MLA Style" sections. The general research tools provided in this part of the site may be very useful in finding sources for your research project.

 

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A sample search using Hacker's "Research and Documentation Online":
"Finding Sources": An Ancient Greek Fashion Show!

To illustrate the use of Hacker's research materials, suppose that I am looking for ancient Greek images to illustrate this English 101 web site. I want something more than the Platos and Socrateses and Apollos that I have been able to find by image searching in the popular search engines, Google and Altavista. ProQuest and InfoTrac are not very helpful on this problem because they are only text-based. Where can I go?

I start at Hacker's web site.
From Research and Documentation Online, choose Humanities.
From Humanities Overview, choose Finding Sources.
From Humanities:Finding Sources, choose Classics.
On the Classics menu, under "Web Resources" there are several links to browse.
Scroll down and choose Electronic Resources for Classicists: the Second Generation.
Choose Image Collections.
On that page, there are links to 11 online image collections. Choose Diotima Images.
Fom Diotima choose Ancient Greek Female Costume: Illustrated by One Hundred and Twelve Plates Selected by J. Moyr Smith

(I mentioned the name Diotima earlier; she was Socrates' teacher, according to Plato's famous dialogue on love, The Symposium. Today, Diotima is a marvelous web site devoted to the subject of women in the ancient world.)

From Hacker's Research and Documentation Online, try finding a path to the subject matter that you have begun to research in your journal. You are likely to find some good sources that don't turn up in searching ProQuest or InfoTrac.

Hacker's web site also is a citation reference:
"Documenting Sources": the MLA Rules Online.

Notice that Hacker's "Research and Documentation Online" is divided into two parts. For every discipline, there is a section on "Finding Sources," but there is also another section on "Documenting Sources." The MLA rules are presented under Humanities: Documenting Sources. A great way to strengthen your grasp of the MLA rules is to browse this material. It is not identical to what we have in the textbook, so you may find clarification of a point that confused you in the book. Between the book and the online reference manual, the repetition of concepts will help your understanding and memory.

Left: classical depiction c. 500 BCE of Greek with laptop!

 


 

 

Left: a singer with a lyre pours a libation to the dead under the earth, in preparation for a song.

 

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