ENG 224: Literature Imagination & Empathy

For this project, you will collect high-quality, academic sources of information (books, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles).  You will then include the following source-types into an annotated bibliography:

• At least one primary source (the work of fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama upon which your argument is focused);
• Four-five scholarly sources focused on empathy;
• Two-three scholarly sources focused on the issue that your primary source addresses (e.g., adoption, violence against women, racism, etc.)  
• One-three additional works of your choice.

When using library databases to locate high-quality, scholarly resources, the following keywords can be useful.

• Book title(s) - use quotation marks to keep the words together, e.g., "The Catcher in the Rye"
• Book author - if you can locate your author in the subject heading area of a book's record, absolutely click on it!
• An issue or the social situation you chose - use caveperson language (i.e., keep it simple) - use one or two simple keywords
• Subject headings:  Literature Theory; Literary criticism; Literature and society; Criticism, interpretation, etc.;
• Subject headings:  Empathy; Compassion; Morality; Ethics
  IMPORTANT:  Use the hyperlinked subject terms that each database suggests to refine your work and expand your research options.

Using the "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" search facet when available in a library database helps limit your searches to high-quality, academic resources.  However, a few research journals may still include things that aren't inherently "scholarly."  If you have trouble determining whether or not your source is an academic, scholarly one, use the "Popular vs. Scholarly" handout below to help.