The ENGL 112 class taught by Sarah Parry will be working on a research essay assignment with a Works Cited. Students are being asked to provide 5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources that are relevant to a topic based on pre-assigned readings. Materials from the bibliographies of assigned readings are not accepted. A copy of the assignment can be found in the Course Assignments binder at the Reference Desk.
Topic A: Ethnic Studies
Possible search terms: Try the following keyword search:
Academic Search Premier or Sociological Abstracts: (immigrant women or women immigrants) and (labour market or employment) plus whatever occupation or country the students have chosen to research. “Ethnic economy” can be used with some success.
NB: Limit to Peer-Reviewed Sources
Contemporary Women’s Issues: keyword (immigrant) and select Workplace from the Subject Area drop down menu. *You can also select Geographic region if the student has selected a national context.
Topic B: Adolescent Studies
In Academic Search Premier, AnthroSource, Sociological Abstracts: A useful search is friendship and (school or education) and sociability or a search with “friendship” “adolescence” and “education” or “high school”. The instructor has suggested that students may want to research “esl” and “friendship” and read professional ESL journals. UBC holds a few ESL journals.

Topic C: Labour Studies

Academic Search Premier, Web of Science
Suggested searches: “trade unions and (globalization or coalitions)” or “union and minorities” or “unions and environmentalism” depending on the students’ topic of choice.
NB: The instructor has indicated that some students may choose to look at teachers/nurses and unions, although this is a much harder topic. She has suggested that students may need to contact her for recommended sources.
Topic D: Gender Studies
Academic Search Premier, Sociological Abstracts, Contemporary Women’s Issues:
Useful keywords are “gender, language, discourse studies” and whatever profession students are investigating such as “law, medicine, broadcasting (specify tv, radio, etc.) The term ‘sociolinguistics’ is also be a useful search term.