LITERATURE AND ENGLISH

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FIND AN ARTICLE: SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S DATABASES

These databases are either tailored to your subject or they provide coverage over a wide range of interdisciplinary topics. Before you start, you might take a look at some tips on searching databases.

• Academic Search Premier: An interdisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles

• Issues and Controversies: Covers current social topics that inspire debate and controversy and offers information on both sides of the argument

• Points of View: Offers overviews on a variety of current events and sets of opposing viewpoints on controversial subjects

• Student Research Center: Access to information organized by subject from several kinds of resources, including magazines, country reports, and encyclopedias

• Religion and Philosophy Collection: More than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles addressing theology and philosophical studies

FIND A BOOK: GO STRAIGHT TO THE STACKS

If you can't go the library's stacks, check out our collection of online reference books:

• Credo Reference Online: Access to more than 300 reference books, including general and specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries for overviews on topics

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: Online access to a general encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics

• World Atlas: Provides maps, images, and the ability to compare demographic information from different countries

If you can visit the library, it's easy to browse our collection because we organize books by their subject:

You also might try these reference books:

• Magill’s Literary Annual: Presents reviews of outstanding books published in a given year, ranging from 1977 to the present Ref PN 44 .M351

• Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism: Provides overviews of major figures and bibliographies of criticism related to 19th century literature and offers cumulative indexes for its many volumes Ref PN 761 .N5

• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: Presents analyses of major figures and bibliographies of critical works on 20th century literature and provides cumulative indexes for its many volumes Ref PN 771 .G27

• Contemporary Literary Criticism: Provides excerpts and overviews of literary criticism and offers indexes for its several volumes Ref PN 771 .C59

• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: A five-volume set that contains more than 1100 entries on multicultural literature, including illustrations, biographical information, and historical contexts Ref PS 153 .M56 G74 2005

• Oxford Companion to American Literature: Presents more than 5000 entries on important figures, works, and ideas in American literature Ref PS 21 .H3 1995

FIND A WEBSITE: USE INTERNET RESOURCES WISELY

Although these websites are likely to be accurate, you should still evaluate information found on the Internet.

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Offers overviews on major figures and periods in English and American literature in searchable online encyclopedia

• The Literary Encyclopedia: Contains articles written by literary scholars on major figures, works, and topics in literature, including a glossary, timeline, and stylebook

• Glossary of Literary Terms: Provides concise definitions of terms and concepts often used in literary and rhetorical studies

• Modern American Poetry: Provides biographical and historical information on modern American poets, including links for further reading and criticism

• Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism Collection: Contains an alphabetized index for finding links to criticism on a specific author

• Intute: Arts and Humanities: Offers links to web resources, organized by topic, and includes information on electronic journals, support materials, and virtual training suite

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Offers biographical information and bibliographies on major figures and events in American literature

• Glossary of Literary Theory: Provides concise definitions of terms and concepts used in literary theory in an alphabetized list

FIND A PRINT JOURNAL: READ THE LATEST ISSUES

The library subscribes to magazines and journals that are related to your field. Head to Tioga 3 and browse through some of these journals:

• PMLA
• Alimentum
• Times Literary Supplement
• The Iowa Review
• The Kenyon Review
• The Paris Review
• Poetry
• Fireweed
• The Georgia Review
• Glimmer Train Stories
• The Bloomsbury Review
• Atlantic Monthly
• ZZyzzyva
• The American Poetry Review

CITATION GUIDES: CREATE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Whether you use websites, electronic journals, reference books, or print resources, you will need a bibliography. Here’s some information on how to cite your sources:

• Avoid inadvertent plagiarism: It’s possible to copy from a source and not even know that you’ve done anything wrong.

• KnightCite: This great site formats the bibliographic entry for you, and you can select the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago).

• Guide to the MLA style: The MLA-style is generally used for papers written in the humanities.

• Guide for the APA style: The APA-style is generally used for papers written in the social sciences, especially psychology.

FIND MORE HELP: USE COLLEGE RESOURCES

Don’t hesitate to talk to a librarian, a tutor, or your instructor when conducting research. Make the most of these resources!

• Library Hours
• Writing Center
• Tutoring Lab

Descriptions of databases are paraphrased or taken directly from Ebsco.

This page was created and is maintained by Smita Avasthi.