Students are to read the following articles in the compendium entitled "ENG4391 Writing a Thesis on a Literary Topic" (May be purchased in "Kopiutsalget" in Akademika):
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb,and Joseph Williams. "Making Good Arguments: An Overview." In The Craft of Research. Chicago and London: Chicago, U. P., 1995 88-93.
- Culler, Jonathan. "What is Theory?" In Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1997. 1-17.
- Paul Goring, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Domhnall Mitchell. "Theory and Method." In Goring, Hawthorn, and Mitchell: Studying Literature: The Essential Companion. London: Arnold, 2001. 142-43.
- Harris, Robert. Evaluating Internet Research Sources, Version dated 17.11.1997, http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm..
- Owens, W. R. "The Dissertation." In Simon Eliot and W. R. Owens: A Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge, 1998. 173-184.
- Darnton, Robert. "What Is the History of Books?" In Kenneth E. Carpenter, ed., Books and Society in History: Papers of the Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1983. 3-26.
- Greetham, D. C. "Ch. 8: Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism." In Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. 295-346.
- McKenzie, D. F. "Ch. 1: The Book as an Expressive Form." In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. London: The British Library, 1986. 1-21.
- Paul Goring, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Domhnall Mitchell "Plagirarism and How to Avoid It." In Goring, Hawthorn, and Mitchell, Studying Literature: The Essential Companion. London: Arnold, 2001. 89-91.
Students must also read the following online article:
- DeVoss, Dànielle og Annette C. Rosati. "'It wasn't me, was it?' Plagiarism and the Web." (The electronic article may be located and printed out through an online search using e.g. WebSpirs and the MLA Database.)