Argh..can't find any critical reviews...

[Auryg]

I have a big paper on it, and I'm having troubles finding any good sources. The libarians at my school weren't much help at all. I need critical reviews and the such on the book...The most i've found is This, but that doesn't seem to be very good.

The sources can't be online either...anyone know what I should be searching for or anything?

 

[OdiN]

Here's a thought. Do the work yourself.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Here's a thought. Do the work yourself.

Here's a thought-I've been trying for 2 weeks now, and I thought someone here might have some good places I can check.

I have about 6 sources the way it is, but most of them just aren't what I'm looking for.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Why do you need other people's thoughts on the book? A more interesting and valuable paper would be to read the work and think deeply enough about it to come up with your own point of view.

Or as OdiN put it: Here's a thought. Do the work yourself.

Unless of course the assignment is "summarize what other people think about Dorian Gray."

Not trying to give you a hard time, but you aren't explaining why you need other opinions instead of your own.

 

[MrScott81]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Why do you need other people's thoughts on the book? A more interesting and valuable paper would be to read the work and think deeply enough about it to come up with your own point of view.

Or as OdiN put it: Here's a thought. Do the work yourself.

Unless of course the assignment is "summarize what other people think about Dorian Gray."

Not trying to give you a hard time, but you aren't explaining why you need other opinions instead of your own.

Because most of the times, for research papers, you need to do research, not just read the book and write up a report.

 

[EvilYoda]

James Blunt references Dorian in one of his songs.

<---Also not helping

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: MrScott81

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Not trying to give you a hard time, but you aren't explaining why you need other opinions instead of your own.

Because most of the times, for research papers, you need to do research, not just read the book and write up a report.

Depends on the kind of paper. Research yes, but not necessarily research of other opinions/disections of the book.

For example if I were writing a paper on Clemens' (Twain's) Puddinhead Wilson I might need to look up the use of fingerprinting at the time, or if there were real cases of switched babies, or how many light-skinned African Americans were passing as white. None of that is research on the book itself.

For an entirely different kind of paper on "critical evaluations of Puddinhead Wilson over time" I might try to show how evaluations of the work have changed over time as society's treatment of African Americans has changed.

Anyway, Auryg didn't give any details of his assignment so we're all guessing.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: MrScott81

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Not trying to give you a hard time, but you aren't explaining why you need other opinions instead of your own.

Because most of the times, for research papers, you need to do research, not just read the book and write up a report.

Depends on the kind of paper. Research yes, but not necessarily research of other opinions/disections of the book.

For example if I were writing a paper on Clemens' (Twain's) Puddinhead Wilson I might need to look up the use of fingerprinting at the time, or if there were real cases of switched babies, or how many light-skinned African Americans were passing as white. None of that is research on the book itself.

For an entirely different kind of paper on "critical evaluations of Puddinhead Wilson over time" I might try to show how evaluations of the work have changed over time as society's treatment of African Americans has changed.

Anyway, Auryg didn't give any details of his assignment so we're all guessing.

To be honest, the paper is trash. There are different specific paragraphs- the authors life, short summary, critical reviews in 2 of them...I'm not really sure what the teacher is asking for, but nobody really is. One of those kinds of things.

 

[DaveSimmons]

That's too bad, I had good instructors for the expository writing and literature classes I took in collge and they were well worth the time. It sounds like your class isn't 🙁 .