Art 100 - World Art - Professor Blackwood: Your Assignment

 

Rivera, Diego

Flower Day (Dia de Flores)
Mexico, 1925
Painting - Oil on canvas
58 × 47 1/2 in. (147.32 × 120.65 cm)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Understanding Your Assignment

Before you begin looking for information you should make sure you understand your assignment. Some good questions are:

• How many pages?
• How many sources?
• What kinds of sources?
  
  • Books
  • Articles
  • Websites
    
• What format?

Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.

Breaking Down The Research Process  

The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.

1. Choose a topic - or have one assigned
2. Understand your topic
   • Background reading
     
   • Consider a main focus
   • Refine your topic
   • Make a list of your keywords and concepts
     
3. Search Sources
   • Find Books
   • Find Articles
   • Find Websites
4. Write your paper - Informative, Analytical, Argumentative, Critical
5. Cite your sources

Lichtenstein, Roy

I...I'm Sorry
1965-66
oil and Magna on canvas
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.92 cm)
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles