Spanish Golden Age Literature : Research and Citation Tips

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Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Taken from the University of Pittsburgh, this page offers a helpful explanation of the types of sources you will use for your research and how to best use each type.
Primary Sources for Humanities and Social Sciences : What are Primary Sources?
A library guide dedicated to identifying various primary sources.

Citation Styles and Citation Managers

Citation Styles and Citation Managers such as EndNote, EndNote Basic, Mendeley, or Zotero are software tools for managing your citations. Citation Managers will help you:

Create and organize a personal research database
Download citations from online databases
Format bibliographies and citations in papers
Share your citations with others

Plagiarism

Information on how to avoid plagiarism from UW-Madison's Writing Center.

For additional information, please watch this video made by the UW School of Journalism.

Tips for Searching

AND, OR, NOT (Keyword Boolean)

Use AND, OR, NOT to combine search terms
Use quotation marks to indicate phrases: "Divina Commedia"
Use opening and closing parentheses to group search terms
Use ? or * to truncate: donna? or donna* (will find singular and plural forms). Note that the use of truncation symbols vary in each database or catalog.
There is no need to write with diacritics (accents, tildes, etc.)

Examples:

Carvantes AND (tema? OR critica?)

Cervantes AND “Don Quijote”

“Teatro” AND "comedia" AND Spain

"social aspects" AND “Spanish literature”

Spanish AND "clitic placement"

Helpful Tutorials

Use these Library Research Tutorials to facilitate your reserach: