Friday, October 26, 2007

Library Visit, essay 1

Search the London Times or the Boston Globe (click on Globe) or the New York Times for unique uses of your word since 2000.

Try EBSCO, which searches all magazines/newspapers at once for you. Type username/password, click on "full text periodicals" then "MAS Ultra" then search for recent articles using your word uniquely.

Go to OED.com and log in with my username/password to read more about your word if there is more to be read.

FYI: Here is the suggested outline for essay 1, draft 2:

-Intro: general to specific thesis
-Report on preliminary research/crunch #’s.
-OED definitions that are unique or different from ordinary definitions.
-OED citations from literature—what kinds of authors have experimented with or changed this word over time?
-2000Ă onward usage: in The London Times or other newspaper and in a modern poem/short story/novel.
-Foreign language speakers' usage/history with the word.
-Conclusion: what is this word’s future versus English’s future as a “super-language”?