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Whitney Robinson: Reflections of a Researcher |
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Recent Studies in Restoration & 18th-Century
Literature
Critical Website Evaluation:
"The Literary Gothic"
MLA & WorldCat Topic Search:
Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
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 John Hoppner. The Frankland Sisters. 1795. (National Gallery of Art, Washington) The
assignments composing this project are excellent, practical training
tools for the research process, a foremost priority for any earnest
student intent upon producing their own elevated ideas and
contributing to the world of scholarship and critical thinking. The
most compelling elements of this project were found in the reading
and analysis of scholarly works rather than the procuring of the
scholarly works themselves. The search for relevant, accessible
materials is often a daunting task; yet, once the materials have
been selected, the analysis of scholarly work and the synthesis of
various arguments are the most rewarding aspects of all. The two
components of research and analysis, however, are inextricable; this
process has provided several paths heretofore not traveled in the
quest for scholarly research. The once formidable undertaking is now
made more familiar, and more websites and methods of searching for
scholarly work have been introduced that, with more use, will make
the acquisition of materials a much more gratifying task. The better
the research, the better the work of analysis will be. Making
connections between scholarly writings and the literature read in
class should be the desired end point of the learning process, and
this project has been edifying for my own scholarly journeys in the
world of literature. The lessons learned in this project about the
research process are infinite in value. |
