The Assignment
For Essay #3, you'll develop a thesis (an answer to a research question) related to "Originality and Inspiration" that you can argue for convincingly in an 8-10 page paper. You'll use at least 6 sources, including at least 3 scholarly academic sources.
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Research Tips
► Use relevant keywords. You might start with the name of an original or derived work you've chosen to discuss -- e.g., Hamlet or The Lion King. If more than one word, use quotation marks to indicate a phrase: "Star Wars".
► You might add keywords that express the relationship between the original and the derived work -- e.g., influence or parody or satire or retelling or translation or adaptation or spinoff.
► Truncate, or shorten, your keywords with a wildcard character (usually an asterisk) to bring in variations. For example, adapt* will give you search results containing adaptation, adapted, adapting. Use quotation marks to search for specific phrases, e.g. "fan fiction".
► Use Advanced Search options to find your keywords in prominent places, such as the title of an article or the subject.
► Every database provides ways to narrow your search results. See the examples from HOLLIS on the next tab. You can always turn off a search limit if it proves too restrictive.
► When you find a relevant result, see if the description of it (in HOLLIS, for example) provides other keywords, headings, or tags that will link to similar material.
► When you find a relevant article or book, scan its bibliography or footnotes for other good sources.
► In HOLLIS records, click on the Subject links to bring up other books or articles on the same subject.
► Browse HOLLIS by Subject, using subject headings that you find in the book descriptions: e.g., Fairy tales -- Adaptations.