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Session Outline
Here is the schedule for our session today:
- Introductions, and how to get help
- Preliminary poll: What do you use, and what does it do?
- Finding, recognizing, and accessing sources
- Evaluating sources for authority and utility
- Exercise: Evaluating sources
- Applying what we've learned (group or partner work)
- Formatting and managing citations
- Session recap
Preliminary Poll
Exercise: BEAM
I’m writing a book chapter about the role of ghosts in the novels of Ali Smith, which will be included in the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Ali Smith, a new entry in the series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The following article is one of my sources:
Carless-Frost, Tabby. “A Quivering Ontology: Ali Smith, Hauntology, and Deconstructive Aesthetics.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2025, pp. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2540436.
I’m writing an article, and my topic is the critical reception of the novels of Ali Smith. A significant section of my article is the literature review, where I’m summarizing all available critical studies of Smith’s work.
The following article is one of my sources:
Carless-Frost, Tabby. “A Quivering Ontology: Ali Smith, Hauntology, and Deconstructive Aesthetics.” Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2025, pp. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2540436.
I’m writing a book chapter where I examine key themes in recent Scottish fiction from a spectral studies perspective. This chapter will appear in the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Fiction, another forthcoming entry in the Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature series from Edinburgh University Press.
The following article is one of my sources:
Carless-Frost, Tabby. “A Quivering Ontology: Ali Smith, Hauntology, and Deconstructive Aesthetics.” Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2025, pp. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2540436.