*Drums Fingers Irritatedly On Desk*

[redbrunja]

Okay, this is just ridiculous.

I'm trying to write a 8-12 page paper on efforts to preserve french language in Quebec, and I'm finding nothing. Now, this is a subject my teacher told me would be a snap to research - the morning I went to discuss this with her, she said she'd heard something on this subject on the radio that very morning.

However, those swanky online databases that WWU undoubtedly pays thousands each year so I can search? Giving me no love.

Proquest? Nothing.

Jstore? Nothing written after 1935.

I'm having better luck with wikipedia, google, and npr.org.

Shesh.

Comments

[silver-spotted.livejournal.com]

that sounds like a really interesting topic . . . I was all set to do some investigating for you, because I am Canadian Studies nerdy like that, but I see you have switched topics. Ah well.

good luck on the paper!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you for the thought. It is an interesting topic and I know there has to be information out there about it, as well as a huge current debate about all the efforts Quebec goes to to keep there people speaking french.

However, when it takes me four hours of research and I have nothing that seems quoteable, and an hour of research gets me three books that have information I can actually use, it's time to cut my loses and twice topics.

Thanks for the thought, though.

[silver-spotted.livejournal.com]

i see . . . that's no fun . . . definitely a situation to cut your losses

continued good luck! :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep. And thanks! I could always use a little luck when writing these papers.