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About Scholarly Articles and Reading Tips
Key Characteristics of a Scholarly Article
- Author(s): scholars/researchers with credentials (e.g. PhD) and/or affiliations (e.g. university professor or similar knowledge-based organizations.)
- (the intended) Audience: for their academic peers in the discipline/field.
- Purpose: to further our understanding about a topic with original research, usually focusing in a narrow area of the subject (rather than to merely persuade, entertain, inform, or report.)
- Peer-reviewed scholarly articles are vetted and improved by experts in the field before publication.
- Language: scholarly language with discipline specific vocabulary.
- Structure: Relatively lengthy (at least 5 pages of text) with many citations and references to published research (footnotes and/or bibliography).
Reading Tips
A systematic approach in your reading helps you consider the article critically. A good critique is really more about your own confidence as a reader than about possession of specific knowledge.
How to Read Journal Articles Like a Professor by Michael J. Nelson.
Evaluating Information & Citing Sources
Cite sources to
- Avoid plagiarism
- Give credit to the source of an idea
- Lend credibility to your arguments
Books | Articles
Note: in JumboSearch and Databases, you can always limited your search to the French Language when needed)
(JumboSearch for) Books 
Browse for Tisch library books on the epistolary genre, or “letter novels”
- Epistolary fiction -- History and criticism
- Letter writing in literature
- Letters in literature
- Love-letters in literature
- Epistolary fiction, French -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Epistolary fiction, French -- History and criticism
- Francophone and "women authors"
Related Themes:
Sample findings from the above searches:
- Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters.
- Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form
- La lettre française: de Crébillon fils à Rousseau, Laclos, Sade.
- Passion amoureuse et système épistolaire: les débuts de la correspondance entre Madame de Sévigné et sa fille.
- The Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Siècle Des Lumières.
- Virtue’s Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women’s Fiction.
- Women’s Literary Education, 1690-1850
- Women's Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature
- Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: life as literature (French and francophone studies).
(Subject Databases for) Journal Articles 
A. All subjects
B. Subject-Specific Databases
- In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
- Historical Abstracts ( World history and culture),
- LGBTQ+ Source,
- MLA International Bibliography (literature, folklore and related studies.)
- Women's Studies International