Papers should contain a clear thesis as well as at least 5 sources– you may include interviews as sources; the first work referenced should be Healing Wise; the best way to approach this project is to find quotes from the text that stimulate your thought process; write down the quotations word for word and formulate a rudimentary thesis based on what you’ve discovered in the text and then find good quality secondary sources to expand, deepen or even question and contradict your thesis.
The idea here is probably starting with the anecdotal and examining our ideas against the backdrop of a wide variety of sources and paradigms. After using quotations from the text, you might first try searching Susun Weed’s database on her website for articles: http://susunweed.com/Links to an external site.
In addition to Google, of course, there are a number of scholarly or academic databases available to you via the Bankier library on Brookdale’s website (see “Databases and Articles”) :
https://www.brookdalecc.edu/library/Links to an external site.
These papers are a mix of many different sources of input—some informal and anecdotal, some based on folk traditions as explored by Susun S. Weed, some academic, scientific and scholarly—your job is to bring them all together in a meaningful and coherent fashion while exploring a thesis which continually focuses the paper.Papers should contain a clear thesis as well as at least 5 sources– you may include interviews as sources; the first work referenced should be Healing Wise; the best way to approach this project is to find quotes from the text that stimulate your thought process; write down the quotations word for word and formulate a rudimentary thesis based on what you’ve discovered in the text and then find good quality secondary sources to expand, deepen or even question and contradict your thesis.
The idea here is probably starting with the anecdotal and examining our ideas against the backdrop of a wide variety of sources and paradigms. After using quotations from the text, you might first try searching Susun Weed’s database on her website for articles: http://susunweed.com/Links to an external site.
In addition to Google, of course, there are a number of scholarly or academic databases available to you via the Bankier library on Brookdale’s website (see “Databases and Articles”) :
https://www.brookdalecc.edu/library/Links to an external site.
These papers are a mix of many different sources of input—some informal and anecdotal, some based on folk traditions as explored by Susun S. Weed, some academic, scientific and scholarly—your job is to bring them all together in a meaningful and coherent fashion while exploring a thesis which continually focuses the paper.
