Form + Message
The form you chose can deeply impact the message behind your work. When choosing what form your work should take consider the following:
- Who is the audience?
- What material would the audience be most receptive to or interested in?
- How might the material or form change your message?
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Collins, Glenn. “FACING THE EMOTIONAL ANGUISH OF AIDS.” The New York Times, 1983, Late Edition (East Coast) edition.
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F.A.C.T.. Fighting AIDS Continuously Together (1986 -). AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), Candies in variously colored wrappers, endless supply, 1991.
Chicago Manual Style Citations
This assignment requires you to use the Chicago manual of style when citing your work.
Get the manual at the Pollak Library:
We have physical copies of this text in the High Demand collection at the first floor circulation desk. Go to the circulation desk and ask staff to retrieve the book for you. They will need the call number which is Z253 .U69 2017
Get citation help online:
If you want a quick guide to Chicago style citations online. Check out our Chicago Manual of Style LibGuide.
Essential Databases
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Art Full Text - 1984-present This link opens in a new window
Available via EBSCO. Art-related topics found in journals and magazine articles, many full text. Coverage includes English and foreign language journals. Can search for specific art reproductions.
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Art Index Retrospective - 1929-1984 This link opens in a new windowArt Index is available via EBSCO with historical coverage of the literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Includes resources from 600+ journals. Limited to 2 simultaneous users.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital interdisciplinary archive of over 1,000 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR also includes other valuable materials for academic work, such as select monographs, photographs, manuscripts, speeches, maps, and pamphlets. All collections are full-text searchable, offer search-term highlighting, include high-quality images, and are interlinked by millions of citations and references.
What is a Scholarly Text?
A scholarly text is a piece of writing that was written by a researcher for the purposes of expanding knowledge in a particular field. Generally these are published in academic journals or books. Scholarly texts are NOT for the purposes of entertainment, to sell a product, or the spreading news. For this reason you are not going to find scholarly texts in popular magazines or newspapers.
Here are tips for researching:
- When in doubt, search for "peer-reviewed" articles. All "peer-reviewed" articles are scholarly texts.
- Do your research in a database that contains ONLY scholarly texts. JSTOR is an example of this.