Folklore : Help/Writing
This guide presents resources and tips useful for students in folklore classes. Topics covered include folklore, folklife, and folkways.
- Databases and E-Journals
- Books and Reference Sources
- Web Sites and Associations
- World Regions
- Help/Writing
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Thomas Durkin
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Room 236
School of Social Work Building
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3283
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Writing/Citation Assistance
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Citing References/Citation Manager Help Website
(Using a citation manager is a good way to automate your collection of citations and can also help with creating a bibliography.) - The Chicago Manual of Style Online (Style used by Journal of American Folklore)
- Citing Sources (Library Guide)
- UW Madison Writing Center
The Writing Center "helps undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines become more effective, more confident writers. We believe that writing is a powerful tool not only for communicating existing ideas but also for discovering new ones."
Books/Guides for Writing and Research
Books about folklore can be located by using a number of different databases.
- Try the UW-Madison catalog to see what our libraries own.
- Try WorldCat to find books and other materials owned in libraries across the U.S. as well as many countries around the world.
Are you looking for book reviews? Try this library guide to Finding Book Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Chicago manual of styleCall Number: Z253 .U69 2017 (College Library & Law Library Reference)ISBN: 0226104036Publication Date: 2017
- Craft of research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. WilliamsCall Number: Q180.55 M4 B66 2016 (College Library)ISBN: 0226065650Publication Date: 2016Also available online through ProQuest Ebook Central
- Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination by Chris HartCall Number: H62 H2566 1998 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 0761959742Publication Date: 1998
- Ethnographic writing research : writing it down, writing it up, and reading it by Wendy BishopCall Number: GN307.7 B57 1999 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9780867094862Publication Date: 1999
- FieldWorking : reading and writing research by Bonnie Stone Sunstein, Elizabeth Chiseri-StraterCall Number: GN346 S86 2007 (Memorial Library & iSchool Library)ISBN: 0312438419Publication Date: 2007
- Literature review : six steps to success by Lawrence A. Machi, Brenda T. McEvoyCall Number: LB1047.3 M33 2009 (Merit Library)ISBN: 9781412961349Publication Date: 2009
- A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Joseph Bizup (Revised by); Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); William T. FitzGerald (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by)Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2018 (Mills Music Library and College Library)ISBN: 022649442XPublication Date: 2018
- Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place by Kent C. RydenCall Number: GF91 U6 R93 1993 (Memorial Library & Historical Society Library)ISBN: 0877454140Publication Date: 1993
- Theses and dissertations : a guide to planning, research, and writing by R. Murray Thomas, Dale L. BrubakerCall Number: LB2369 T458 2008 (Memorial Library & Merit Library)ISBN: 1412951151Publication Date: 2008
- Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar by Edited by James Clifford and George E. MarcusCall Number: GN307.7 W75 1986 (College Library, Memorial Library & Art Library)ISBN: 0520057295Publication Date: 1986
- Writing ethnographic fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. ShawCall Number: GN307.7 E44 2011 (Business Library and Memorial Library)ISBN: 0226206807Publication Date: 2011
- Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article by Howard S. BeckerCall Number: H61.8 B43 2020 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9780226683638Publication Date: 2020
- Writing Literature Reviews by Jose L. Galvan; Melisa C. GalvanISBN: 9781351858922Publication Date: 2017Available online through ProQuest eBook Central
- Writing up Qualitative Research by Harry F. WolcottISBN: 1412970113Publication Date: 2008Available online through Sage Research Methods