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Framing the Context:
Search Strategies for Defining and Exploring
Your Topic
Melanie Sellar and Anthony Raymond,
Santa Clara University Library, Spring 2019
Welcome! Workshop Goals Today
1. Identify and describe different types of source tools.
2. Compare the types of sources found in different search tools.
3. Learn and practice strategies for narrowing research topics
https://youtu.be/Q0B3Gjlu-1o
How to Find a Topic: Ideation
Post ideas for your final
research projects in the Padlet.
Go for quantity over quality,
that's what the ideation process
is all about.
Take ~5 minutes.
Exercise 1: Topic Ideation
After Topic Ideation: Next Steps
 If you can state your topic in 1-3 words, it is too broad
 Tip: narrow your topic by finding and adding 1-2 contexts:
 History / Time Period
 Specific community
 Particular Discipline
 Certain Aspect
 How? Pre-reading and identifying some of the conversations
Focus Your Topic: Context Examples
 History / Time Period
 Evolution of urban graffiti from criminal activity to art form
 Specific Community
 Graffiti as cultural expression by a particular community in a particular
place
 Particular Discipline
 Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Religious Studies!
 Certain Aspect
 Role of graffiti as religious expression in persecuted communities
 Graffiti art as empowerment for [name of racial/ethnic community] youth
 Relationship between street art, graffiti, and muralism
Focus Your Topic: Other Strategies
https://youtu.be/1oJNO6PYZe4
Exercise 2: Topic Map
Graffiti, culture, and youth
(strategies: sociology, art, and education databases; newspapers)
Reminder!
Algorithms of Oppression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE
Rhetorical Uses of Different Sources
From the Library Website access databases and catalogs of:
Example Topic Map
Original topic
1
2
3
45
6
Post 2 narrowed topic
ideas that you
identified from your
reading and mapping.
Exercise 3: Two Narrowed Ideas

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Framing and Finding Your Topic Spring 2019

  • 1. Framing the Context: Search Strategies for Defining and Exploring Your Topic Melanie Sellar and Anthony Raymond, Santa Clara University Library, Spring 2019
  • 2. Welcome! Workshop Goals Today 1. Identify and describe different types of source tools. 2. Compare the types of sources found in different search tools. 3. Learn and practice strategies for narrowing research topics
  • 4. How to Find a Topic: Ideation
  • 5. Post ideas for your final research projects in the Padlet. Go for quantity over quality, that's what the ideation process is all about. Take ~5 minutes. Exercise 1: Topic Ideation
  • 6. After Topic Ideation: Next Steps If you can state your topic in 1-3 words, it is too broad Tip: narrow your topic by finding and adding 1-2 contexts: History / Time Period Specific community Particular Discipline Certain Aspect How? Pre-reading and identifying some of the conversations
  • 7. Focus Your Topic: Context Examples History / Time Period Evolution of urban graffiti from criminal activity to art form Specific Community Graffiti as cultural expression by a particular community in a particular place Particular Discipline Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Religious Studies! Certain Aspect Role of graffiti as religious expression in persecuted communities Graffiti art as empowerment for [name of racial/ethnic community] youth Relationship between street art, graffiti, and muralism
  • 8. Focus Your Topic: Other Strategies https://youtu.be/1oJNO6PYZe4
  • 9. Exercise 2: Topic Map Graffiti, culture, and youth (strategies: sociology, art, and education databases; newspapers)
  • 12. Rhetorical Uses of Different Sources From the Library Website access databases and catalogs of:
  • 13. Example Topic Map Original topic 1 2 3 45 6
  • 14. Post 2 narrowed topic ideas that you identified from your reading and mapping. Exercise 3: Two Narrowed Ideas

Editor's Notes

  • #6: Topic development: Do a sample search on those two examples in OSCAR Simple and OneSearch OSCAR Simple Search: You get a lot of different type of documents, on different facets of the topic What kind of documents do you see? On what facets of the topic? Facilitate conversation on what you see, including how manageable their research paper would be if they used that topic OneSearch on the same topic: Lets do the same search. Before you commit to a topic, you need to do some reading and research
  • #7: Possibly add a video here
  • #8: Certain Aspect Role of graffiti as religious expression in persecuted communities Graffiti art as empowerment for [name of racial/ethnic community] youth Relationship between street art, graffiti, and muralism Aspect: choose one lens through which to view the research problem, or look at just one facet of it [e.g., rather than studying the role of food in South Asian religious rituals, study the role of food in Hindu ceremonies, or, the role of one particular type of food among several religions]. Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity i
  • #9: Certain Aspect Role of graffiti as religious expression in persecuted communities Graffiti art as empowerment for [name of racial/ethnic community] youth Relationship between street art, graffiti, and muralism Aspect: choose one lens through which to view the research problem, or look at just one facet of it [e.g., rather than studying the role of food in South Asian religious rituals, study the role of food in Hindu ceremonies, or, the role of one particular type of food among several religions]. Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity i
  • #10: Step 1: Pick one of the topics to brainstorm about the kinds of disciplines it may be useful to look at, and the types of sources that may be relevant. Step 2: Ask them to look at a list of sources on the homepage (and if needed under Find Articles ) and identify which ones could be good to find those kinds of disciplines and sources. Graffiti, culture, and youth (strategies: sociology, art, and education databases; newspapers)
  • #13: attention to the rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, pathos, kairos, and more You can use these sources differently to make different appeals E.g. newspapers: often good for pathos (emotional appeals) E.g. scholarly articles: often good for logos (logical appeals) E.g. scholarly articles, newspapers, books: ethos (authority appeal) and logos (logical appeals)
  • #14: Maybe have a student share out their topic map (and brainstorm keywords?). Next, pick one of these trajectories in your map to begin going in deeper on. Youll keep using the databases. Spend 10-15 minutes. Youll be sharing out 2 promising results into our final exercise Padlet. Show students how to use Find it at SCU, how to identify and make use of Subject Terms to find articles, and how to cite an article.