Today, I want to discuss the outside source.
The Film Analysis
will have at minimum one outside source besides the movies. A line needs
to be taken from the outside source and integrated within the essay at
least once or more (with a lead-in and explanation afterwards of
course). I've shown the formatting for integrating quotes more than
once.
At the higher levels of English, students need to use
outside sources to a much greater extent. By looking at a source and
analyzing...looking at another source and analyzing...looking at another
source and analyzing...English majors are researching every opinion out
there before coming to their own conclusion. It is practically the only
way we reach the 20-page minimum requirement for most of our essays in
graduate school.
The process is not too dissimilar from the
Blackboard assignments where students look at the article and what other
students wrote in addition to their own 250-word post.
What is a legitimate outside source?
For
the Film Analysis, it could be a professional journalist (film critic
or other writers found on news websites). For example, the Disney article used for Blackboard #7 is a legitimate
source because it is found on a respected news website (Vanity Fair).
Just be careful of any huge bias that might appear on a news website.
It
would look great though if the source could come from an academic
journal, and this will be a requirement for the Research Paper in April.
Where do you find sources from an academic journal?
As I wrote or said before, JSTOR was my favorite website throughout UC Santa Barbara and CSU Stanislaus. Just type
in a topic and usually something written by a scholarly elite will show
up. English professors at the higher levels want the source to come
from someone in academics.
In case that doesn't work, the library website has links to more "academic search engines."
http://www.jefferson.kctcs.edu/en/About_Us/Library/Articles.aspx
Besides JSTOR, I'd recommend EBSCOHost out of that list.
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