Library Guides: EN 1250: Seminar on Academic Writing (Duzdag): Find Articles

Search Terms

Try pairing your chosen text or film with a theme or concept. See examples below.

“gran torino” AND masculinity

“gran torino” AND “white savior”

“joy luck club” AND identity

“joy luck club” AND motherhood

“joy luck club” AND race

“joy luck club” AND feminism

Adding quotation marks around a phrase "tells" the database/search engine to find results with that exact phrase.

Example Search in JSTOR

Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary database with full-text access to thousands of scholarly journals, plus online books, videos, news/magazine articles, and more. Also, contains the library's catalog of locally held physical materials.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media. Includes or has links to full text.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of journal content, books, images and primary sources covering a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. You'll find works from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies and university repositories, as well as scholarly articles available anywhere across the web. Google Scholar also includes court opinions and patents.