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Quinebaug Valley ARTH 1001 - Global Art History: Prehistory to 1500 CE

Resources for ARTH 1001 - Global Art History Special Topics Research Paper

Use the tabs at left to find relevant resources for this assignment. The assignment requires you to:

  • Choose from a list of cultures and time periods provided by the instructor
  • Describe the art from that culture in that time period
  • Find and use at least 3 examples of art from that culture and time period
  • Include images of main artwork and full MLA-style citations for each image (library databases provide suggested citations)
  • In preparing the essay, you may utilize the textbook but be sure to also use at least 3 other sources

Refer frequently to the instructor's detailed expectations for the assignment (see Blackboard)

Refer to the "Basics of Formal Analysis" handout.

Keeping Track of your Research

Research we do for an academic assignment is not the same thing as research we do at home.  Think about the last few things you asked a search engine.  Most of the time we look for things like: what other movies is this actor in, what's the phone number for my vet's office, where is the nearest Mexican restaurant, etc.  All of these searches are quick because we have a specific question that can be answered using one web site. 

Now think about what you are asked to find for your academic assignments.  The first big difference is that you are unlikely to be asked to find a specific answer that only uses one web page to answer.  More likely, you will be asked to find multiple sources to formulate your own, individual answer.  This means that academic research just takes longer, and that's fine. You will also be expected to keep track of where you got the information to create your answer. 

If research is going to take us longer than we are used to, we want to make sure that we do not accidentally redo our research when our research occurs in chunks over multiple days or weeks.  We also want to make sure that we do not redo our research when it comes time to acknowledge the sources we used to create our answer.

This Research Tracking Worksheet will help you keep track of all the steps that are a part of academic research as well as giving you a place to save your research as you go.  We recommend that you save another copy of this worksheet whenever you have a research project.