Research Guide - EALC 40411/40412 — Fourth-Year Chinese - Library Guides at University of Notre Dame

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This course guide assists the students of Fourth-Year Chinese taught by Professor Chengxu Yin in researching for their oral presentation.

It consists of

Getting Started
Searching for Information: Recommended sources (online newspapers & magazines)
Citing Sources: The Modern Language Association (MLA) citation and format style guide from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Dictionaries: Online dictionaries, and tools.
Useful Expressions: Commonly-used phrases.

Choose a topic from the above lessons.
Analyze the main text to identify potential sub-topics.
Pick a few among the sub-topics that you would like to discuss.
Choose one and write a topic statement. (This can be revised based on information you find during your research.)
Search for relevant information in the sources below.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
Go to "Advanced Search," and select "News" (tab) and "Sources" (bottom).

Suggested Sources:

People's Daily: the English version of 人民日报, an official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
South China Morning Post: Hong Kong's newspaper of record, owned by Alibaba Group.
China Daily: the only National English-language newspaper in China, founded in 1981.
The New York Times: an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

ChinaFile
An online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, ChinaFile publishes original reporting and analysis across a wide spectrum of topics in writing, photography, and video. It also publishes the articles translated from a range of other publications. Its contributors are journalists, scholars, and other experts working both inside and outside of China.
Sixth Tone : Fresh Voices from Today's China
An online English magazine, published by a team of writers, editors, and researchers from within China and abroad who belong to the state-funded Shanghai United Media Group. Consists of three sections:
- Rising Tones up-to-date reports on issues and events from across China
- Deep Tones indepth reports about contemporary China
- Broad Tones opinion pieces by individuals from all walks of life.

Use the following guide to cite your sources.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics
- Citing non-print or sources from the Internet
- Miscellaneous non-print sources
- etc.
MLA Works Cited Page: Periodicals
"include magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. Works cited entries for periodical sources include three main elements—the author of the article, the title of the article, and information about the magazine, newspaper, or journal..."
MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications)
- An Article in a Web Magazine
- An Article from an Online Database
- etc.
MLA Works Cited: Other Common Sources
"...films, DVDs, television shows, music, published and unpublished interviews, interviews over e-mail, published and unpublished conference proceedings."