Finding Sources for Paper #2 & Citing Sources (from handout)

Last week we discussed how to go useful research for Paper #2, and this week I gave you a handout showing you how to cite various sources according to MLA format. I've posted this information below for your reference. Please look this over before starting your paper to make the business of doing research much easier! 

FINDING SOURCES FOR PAPER #2 (and all other papers!)

Three Great Places to Start

• Linschied Library: EBSCO Discovery Service
• Wikipedia (the Links and Sources)
• Google Scholar (not just Google!)

EBSCO DISCOVERY SERVICE

• Use this like Google and type in your search terms. For example, “Serenbe Community” (from our second essay, “Youtopia”).
• You’ll get a number of articles from recent journals, newspapers, and books. Click on “full text” on the left hand side to make sure you’ll have access to all of the articles. Then find the one that looks most interesting to you.
• For example, I found this one: Phil Hudson, “Only in the AJC Serenbe Community: Culture and Community Coverge and Serenbe,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2018. You can read this entire article by clicking on the Full-Text link to the left.
• Look at the “Tools” on the right hand side: this allow you to print the article, e-mail to yourself, save it to your computer, or even cite it! It will show you exactly how to cite the article for your Works Cited page!

WIKIPEDIA

• Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia which is available for anyone to edit; therefore, it cannot be a reliable source in and of itself.
• Instead, search for an article and look at the bottom of the entry, where it says “See Also” and “References.” These are often links to actual articles and sites that the article used as research, and now pass onto you. These are a great place to start learning about your paper’s conversation.
• For example, in the “See Also” section of “Tourism,” I clicked on “Overtourism,” since that seemed like an interesting topic. That led me to a new page which also had great References, such as the article by Francesa Street, “How the village that inspired ‘Frozen’ is dealing with Overtourism,” published in CNN Travel.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

• Works just like Google, except it’s geared to find more scholarly articles and websites that will be useful for college-level writing and research.
• For example, I searched for “Overtourism” and found dozens of great articles, such as “Venice: The Problem of Overtourism and the Impact of Cruises”

Citing Sources in Paper #2 (a quick MLA Guide)

For more information about citation, visit the Purdue OWL’s website: owl.purdue.edu. Click on “Purdue OWL” on the top, and then choose “Research and Citation” on the left-hand side. Click on “MLA” and then choose “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” This will show you every possible situation you might need to cite. Some basic ones that you will probably use in Paper #2 follow:

AN ARTICLE DISCOVERED THROUGH EBSCO, etc.

Phil W.Hudson, For the AJC, Staff. “ONLY IN THE AJC SERENBE COMMUNITY; Culture and Community Converge at Serenbe.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA), 5 Oct. 2018. EBSCOhost.

A FILM

Daughter of Danang. Directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco. PBS, 2002.

AN ARTICLE OR PAGE ON A WEBSITE

Williams, Starlight & McAndrews, Mary Beth. “8 Places to Visit if you Love Star Wars.” National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 2022. 8 places to visit if you love ‘Star Wars’ (nationalgeographic.com). Accessed 27 September 2022.

AN INTERVIEW

Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 27 September 2022.

A YOU TUBE VIDEO

McGonigal, Jane. “Gaming and Productivity.” YouTube, uploaded by Big Think, 3 July 2012.

A PODCAST

“Best of Not My Job Musicians.” Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! from NPR, 4 June 2016.

 

ALSO, remember that when citing a source in your paper, it should look something like this:

In the 2002 film, Daughter of Danang, after refusing to answer the letters of her mother and daughter, Heidi tells the director that “I’ve closed the door…but it isn’t locked” (Dolgin & Franco). This is important because…

Introduce all quotations with context, quote or reference something specific from the source, and then cite the source in a way so it connects with your Works Cited page.

Paper #2 assignment (in-class writing on Thursday!)

For Thursday's class, we'll be doing an in-class writing to help you get started with Paper #2. I'll also discuss how to find good sources for your papers, and not having to rely solely on a Google search! :) 

The Paper #2 assignment I passed out in class is below. Note that the due date is October 6th, which is a bit later than what it states on the course calendar. I moved it back a week so you could work on it more if you wanted. 

English 1113

Paper #2: The Tourist Trap

INTRO: In Amanda Fortini’s essay about the realities of living in Las Vegas, “The People of Las Vegas,” she writes that “when you have very little experience of a subject, a single point can look like a line” (94). In her case, she notes how many people, both tourists and journalists, think that Las Vegas is only about partying, gambling, crime, and movies like The Hangover. However, there’s much more to Las Vegas, and refusing to see the reality not only limits the tourist’s experience, but also dehumanizes the town. All three articles in class seem to focus on this aspect of travel: if we only travel to be cocooned in a bubble of comfort, we miss the human connections that travel is supposed to offer, and are also blind to injustices that tourism inflicts on the locals (since every tourist destination is someone’s home).

PROMPT: For your second paper, I want you to choose a tourist destination or activity that draws a lot of people and money. This could be a town like Las Vegas, a luxury like a cruise ship, or a tourist community like Serenbe. If possible, try to choose a place you’ve actually been to and have some sort of connection with (to make it more personal). Your paper needs to do three things: (a) explain why people go there—what’s the attraction and how is it sold to people; (b) what are people missing about this place? What don’t they see or understand about it? (c) how does it connect to some of the ideas in the essays from class? For example, if you decided to write about Disneyworld, what might be some of the downsides of this get-away amusement community? How might it be a little like Serenbe in its “utopian” approach, or like a cruise ship in its philosophy of “the customer is always right”?

REQUIREMENTS: This is a true CONVERSATION PAPER, so you need to bring in other sources to have a dialogue with (You + Other Voices). That means you should use (a) at least ONE of the essay from class, though you can use more; and (b) TWO to THREE outside sources, which could be travel or company websites, articles about the place or attraction, or articles about travel/tourism itself. We will discuss how to find reliable articles and websites in class, so stay tuned!

NOTE: Papers that do not have at least 3 secondary sources will be returned without a grade. You can revise the paper with the right number of sources, but until you do so, you will not get a grade for this paper. This is a minimum requirement.

ALSO:

• The paper should be AT LEAST 3-4 pages double spaced, though you can do more.
• The paper should try to start “in the middle,” and think about how to introduce us to the place or activity without giving us a laundry list of details.
• The paper should have a TITLE that clues us into the message of the paper.
• The paper is due Tuesday, October 6^th by 5pm (no class that day)

 

 

For Tuesday: Fortini, "The People of Las Vegas" (pp.91-103)

We're going to read ONE more essay before taking a reading break, and this will be the last essay we read from this book. But KEEP THE BOOK: you'll need it for Paper #2, which I'll assign during Tuesday's class. Be sure, too, you have our second book, Devoured, which we won't start for another few weeks, but get it now while you still have time, if you don't already.

Answer TWO of the following:

Q1: Fortini writes that "Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas...and one slivery weekend glimpse bestows on them a sense of ownership and authority" (92). Why DO we have so many ideas about a city that few of us live in, and many people have never even visited? Why does she suggest that these ideas give us "ownernship and authority" over it? Why is that annoying to the people who actually live there?

Q2: According to Fortini, who ARE the people of Las Vegas? Why might the answer surprise us? Why do you think tourists don't really see these people when they visit?

Q3: Fortini says that the residents of Las Vegas believe that "honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals" (101). In other words, people might not be super nice here, but they rarely lie to you. Why is one preferrable to the other, in your opinion? What can honesty reveal that sympathy might not? 

Q4: One of the most insightful things Fortini says in this essay appears on page 94, when she writes, "when you have very little experience of a subject, a single point can look like a line." What does she mean by this? How does this statement relate to Las Vegas, and to many other subjects as well?

For Thursday: Battan, "Youtopia" (pp.169-177)

Be sure to read "Youtopia" for Thursday's class and answer TWO of the questions below as usual. We'll be gearing up for another paper soon, so stay tuned...

Q1: Though Serenbe claims to be a "premium-living paradise," and an escape from the pressures of modern life, is the author convinced? Where does Battan begin to have suspicions about the so-called utopian lifestyle in Serenbe? Or, what does she want the reader to question for themselves? 

Q2: Early in the essay, Battan admits that she, too, is desperate to find an antidote from the 21st-century lifestyle, but says that "Unplugging had begun to feel like another full-time job" (170). What does she mean by this? How could relaxing or simply 'taking it easy' become just as labor intensive as work itself? How might places like Serenbe be partially responsible for this?

Q3: What is the essential philosophy of Serenbe? What does it try to do for its residents, and why do the people who come here find this attractive? Do you feel the people who run Serenbe practice what they preach? Or is it an advertising ploy?

Q4: Toward the end of the essay, Battan responds to the health-industry mantra that "Health is wealth" by remarking, "but the inverse is more true--as a 2017 study in The Lancet puts it, "Low socioeconomic status is one of the strongest predictors of morbidity and premature mortality worldwide" (175). What is Battan's point here, and why does this suggest that the health industry--and in some ways, Serenbe--is treating the wrong problem? 

For Next Tuesday: Clark, “Inside the Nightmare Voyage of the Diamond Princess” (pp.2-23)

REMEMBER: NO CLASS THIS WEEK...attend your conference instead (see the conference schedule on the post BELOW this one). For next week, read the essay above and answer the questions below:

Answer TWO of the following:

Q1: What makes the tourists on board the cruise ship particularly vulnerable to COVID? How does this highlight one of the hidden dangers of exclusive travel?

Q2: The author writes that “the Diamond Princess remained a miniaturized version of the global order—because what other way could things go?” (10). What does he mean by this, and why does a cruise ship show us a uniquely clear portrait of class inequality in the world?

Q3: What was fundamentally flawed about the Diamond Princess’ response to the COVID outbreak? Why do you feel it responded this way? Could it have done it differently, given that its part of the tourist industry?

Q4: Dr. James Lawler, a director for the Global Center for Health Security, wrote on the respond of the US to the pandemic, it was “kind of like watching a movie that you’ve watched before” (22). Why did this seem so familiar to him, and how might this essay highlight the problem with responding to a global pandemic in the 21^st century?

Conferences Next Week!

 Remember, if you  haven't signed up for a conference, please come at one of the available times below. If none of those work for you, please e-mail me and we can find another time to discuss your paper.

All you have to do next week is meet with me for a ten-minute slot to discuss your paper (probably won't take long). I just want to be sure you can hear what's working for your paper, and what you might need to work on for this or future assignments. Remember you can revise these papers at any time in the semester for a higher grade, your choice. 

Here's next week's schedule:

TUESDAY                                            WEDNESDAY

9:30 Johnny                                        11:00 Connor

9:40 Gabby                                         11:10 Raynee

9:50 T.J.                                             11:20: Cynda

10:00 OPEN                                        2:00-2:10 OPEN

10:10 OPEN                                        2:20 Hunter

10:20 Chad

10:30 Destiny

10:40 Kyla

THURSDAY                                        FRIDAY

9:30 Riley                                        11:00 Dylan 

9:40 Jay                                          11:10 Joey

9:50 Emilee                                     11:20-11:40 OPEN

Brycen (around 9:50) 

10:00 Eliana

10:10 Ty

10:20 Austin

10:30 Brodie

10:40 Caden