Assignment

The Scholarly Conversation Project

Submitted by Angela Ecklund on July 2nd, 2018
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Short Description: 

Students will learn how serial publications are presented in databases and how to read them chronologically to determine trends over time using the MLA International Bibliography.

Learning Outcomes: 

Students will understand how serial publications are presented in research databases and how to read them chronologically, browse the MLA International Bibliography‘s indexing structures to perform an initial survey of a field of scholarly output, articulate the differences between a discipline-specific database and a general one, and gather evidence that may be used to draw conclusions about the ways that the “literary conversation” has changed over the last sixty years.

Discipline: 
English

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Suggested Citation: 
Ecklund, Angela. "The Scholarly Conversation Project." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/scholarly-conversation-project.