From History to Fiction - ENG 518: Research Process

Dimensions of Graduate Level Library Research

• Studies of Historical Fiction:
  Finding and assessing literary critcism of a genre
• Craft/Writing of Historical Fiction:
  How to and method
• History: 
  Finding and assessing  primary/secondary sources 
• Philosophies of History | Critical Historical Studies
  Whose history?
• Language and Culture 
  Authenticity

Graduate students are expected to be competent with the following skills:

• Using the library catalog 
• Formatting citations for a bibliography 
• Doing a literature review 

Library research databases with which graduate students should be familiar:

• MLA International Bibliograpy
• Project Muse
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences
• Academic Search Complete

UC Library now has

• WorldCat: "one box" discovery system that vastly simplifies searching but is not a substitute for more sophisticated research skill
• Google Scholar interface for UC
• Interlibrary loan services

How to do Graduate-level Research: Some Advicehttp://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~pompili/index_file/extra/HowToDoResearch_ANRG_WP02001.pdf