Read
Read ‘2. Search for literature’ to find out more about the ‘Cited by’ approach under the rubric THE “SNOWBALL” METHOD displayed on the right side of the page.
To do
Consider this week’s text by Chiel Kattenbelt entitled “Theater as the Art of the Performer and the Stage of Intermediality”.
Go to Google Scholar and identify the 3 most cited publications that cite the above text.
Questions
How does Google Scholar rank its “cited by” results?
What are the links displayed under each result?
What is the value and relevance of checking citations of publications you already found (i.e. the text above)?
Can you think of a reason why these are the 3 most cited publications?
Read
Read the “Works Cited” approach in ‘2. Search for literature’ under the rubric THE “SNOWBALL” METHOD displayed on the right side of the page.
To do
Try to find an online readable version of one of the 3 publications you identified in 3.1. using the available databases of the library.
Questions
Can you locate the passages in the publications that refer to Kattenbelt’s text?
If so, what are these passages referring to from the text (concept, direct citation, etc.)?
What other works/publications to these publications cite?
Can Google Scholar also list the works cited in these publications?
What is the difference between the Google Scholar’s “Cited by” and “Related Article”?
To do
Look for information about the following examples of theater plays, recordings, and performances:
The opera The Murder of Halit Yozgat (Der Mordfall Halit Yozgat) by Ben Frost
A review of Robert Lepage’s theater play 887
A recording of 4’33” composed by John Cage.
A live performance of John Cage’s 4’33”
Dance performance Now here, Now always by the Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2)
The original radio play All that Fall written by Samuel Beckett recorded in 1957.
The performance Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg during the 1966 show 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering
Now check how to reference each of these objects according to the Chicago Manual of Style by using Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations or the online Chicago Manual of Style (log in with your Solis ID).
Pick at least 2 of these objects and create an item for them in your Zotero library (NB: click on ‘item type’ in Zotero to select the right type of item), by manually adding all the required bibliographic information.
If time: brainstorm on the example you would like to discuss in weekly assignment 3 and repeat the process of collecting and storing the bibliographic information needed to accurately reference this item in your portfolio.