ENG 495 - Professor Huff

This guide will help students gather sources to cite in their assignments for Professor Joyce Huff's ENG 495 course. It provides links to resources that are useful for finding background information, scholarly sources, and representations of disability in cultural works. 

Use the links on the left side of the guide to find lists of resources divided into separate pages for different kinds of information. Most of the resources are part of the University Libraries electronic collections; if you are working at a computer off campus, you will likely be prompted to log in them with your Ball State username and password. 

It is often useful, before you begin searching for information, to think of potential search terms.

Imagine a researcher interested in Susy Hendrix's effort to adapt to losing her sight in the play and movie Wait Until Dark. They might think of a research topic like this one:

If they are interested in researching the experience of a person adapting to a visual impairment, they might articulate a question like this one: 

• What experiences are common to people who have recently lost their sight? 

They could then list groups of synonyms and other terms they associate with those ideas. For example: 

• Experiences, frustrations, obstacles, adaptations, milestones
• People, women, the middle-aged
• Loss of sight, blindness, visual impairment

Alternate search terms do not need to be one-to-one interchangeable with your initial main ideas. They can be more specific, less specific, or just related terms. Thinking of these words ahead of time will let you focus on your searches once you're working in a database, and prevent you from having to pause to think of additional terms.