Referencing

• Brian Richardson, MHRA Style Guide. A Handbook for Authors and Editors, third edition (London: MHRA, 2013) - available as hard copy and pdf: http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/

How-to guides for undergraduate research and dissertation writing

• Bryan Greetham, How to Write your Undergraduate Dissertation, 2nd edition (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). Currently copies of 2009 edn available at Warwick University Libray PN146.G73.
• Alex Osmond, Academic Writing and Grammar for Students (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2013).
• Nicholas S. R Walliman, Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success (Los Angeles: Sage, 2014). Warwick University Library 378.17 WAL (multiple copies)
• Gina Wisker, The Undergraduate Research Handbook (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). (multiple copies).

Books and other tools for a first orientation

Identify a good reference work or introduction to the specialist area you want to work in.

Here are some examples:

• William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson (eds), The Cambridge History of French Literature (Cambridge: CUP, 2011). Also available as e-book.
• Cambridge Companions On-Line: access this platform via the Library for handbooks on various topics related to the broad categories of "literature and classics"; "philosophy, religion and culture"; and "music". Use keyword searches to find the right one for you (e.g. the French novel; Molière; British views of the French Revolution...)! Many also contains suggestions for further reading. Off-campus access requires a Warwick login.
• Oxford Handbooks On-Line: again access via the Library website.
• Peter France (ed.), The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (Oxford, 1995) – browsing through a hard copy can yield inspiration!

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• Lennard J. Davis, The Disability Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2013).
• Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: an Introduction, 2nd edn (Hoboken: J. Wiley and sons, 2011) (e-book).
• Gary Gutting, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: CUP, 2001).
• Christie McDonald & Susan Rubin Suleiman (eds), French global : a new approach to literary history (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
• James Penney, After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics (London: Pluto, 2014).
• Isabelle Vanderschelden, Studying French Film (Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, 2013).

Take things a step further with:

• Oxford Bibliographies: on-line research guides ("bibliographies raisonnées") developed by specialists, allowing a quick identification of key publications in a given field. Warwick offers access to "international relations", "philosophy", "political science", "renaissance and reformation", and "sociology".
• The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, a journal published by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), offering surveys of the main trends in a given year. Organised by area (e.g. "French Studies") and within that by period or domain (e.g. "French Studies: Film Studies" or "French Studies: Caribbean Studies"). Recent numbers available via JSTOR. Warwick login required.
• Back issues of journals such as Italian Studies, French Studies, French History, Paragraph, ...
• The links on the "links and resources" page
• Systematic and targeted bibliographical searches using databases and search engins: find out more about this in the lectures and from the Subject Support pages on Warwick's Library website.