Writing 100 (Snyder)

Using the links below and answer the following questions with your group.

Groups 1, 3, 5

Article

The Memory of the Holocaust in Primo Levi's "If This Is a Man"

In JStor

Groups 2, 4, 6

Article

Euphemisms of Death: Interpreting a Primary Source Document on the Holocaust

In JStor

How many sources does your article cite? How many sources cited your article? Use Google Scholar for this second part.

• A citation trail is a link from an article or book to a second article or book, connected in some way to the first article. If you find an article that is important or relevant to your work, you should follow the citation trails to find similarly important or relevant articles.
   
• A forward citation trail links from the first article to subsequent articles that use information from the first article and cite the first article in a bibliography or list of references. These are usually listed in a database record under "citations."
  
   
• A backward citation trail links from an article to articles that were used as resources in the first article. These are usually listed in a database record under "references."
  
   
• The number of citations an article gets may indicate the relative importance of that article in the field or discipline. Generally, the higher the list of citations, the more that article has been used as a resource for subsequent research, which would suggest that the article's research and conclusions are sound. However, if an article is very recently published (within the last two or three years), it may not have many citations regardless of its value.