eng 2200 - finding literary

criticismspring 2013

Literary

criticism?

What’s that?

Where do I start?

Here’s what we’re going to cover today:

0Library catalog (WorldCat Local)0MLA International Bibliography

Database0JSTOR Database0Saving and citing what you find

WorldCat Local (Library catalog)0 What’s it good for?

0 Finding books and e-books containing literary criticism on your book, story, author, or genre.

0 Finding books and e-books on culture, history, and related topics.

0 Starting your search for articles.0 What’s it NOT good for?

0 Doing in-depth article searching (databases are better for that).

0 Search tips0 Search for the title or author of your

work, along with the word “criticism” (ex. Jean Rhys criticism).

0 Put your title in quotes to make sure it’s searched as a phrase (ex. “one hundred years of solitude”).

0 Add the author’s name if it’s a common word (ex. Shame and Rushdie).

MLA International Bibliography (database)0 What’s it good for?

0 Finding critical, scholarly journal articles on topics related to language and literature.

0 Providing information about books that contain essays or chapters on your topic (full text of books is not included).

0 What’s it not good for? 0 Finding popular articles (ONLY scholarly

journals in language and literature are included in this database).

0 Searching Tips0 You don’t need to put the word

“criticism” in your search in this database, because most of the articles are critical.

0 Use keywords to search for articles on your chosen work, author, genre, theory, themes, or any combination of those (ex. Gabriel Garcia Marquez AND magic realism).

0 Use the Subjects (tags) applied to each article to help you come up with synonyms, related terms and find other articles.

JSTOR (database)0 What’s it good for?

0 Finding full text, scholarly journal articles from a wide range of subject areas.

0 Getting an interdisciplinary perspective on your topic.

0 Finding articles on lesser-known works.0 What’s it NOT good for?

0 Finding books (no books). 0 Search tips

0 JSTOR searches the full text of every article, so be very specific.

0 Use quotations to tell the database to search your title as phrase, and include the author’s name.

0 Check the box next to Article on the Advanced Search page to get rid of Book Reviews (which are NOT scholarly sources).

Save your sources (and save your sanity)!

0 Look for tools in the library resources to: 0 Print0 Email0 Get the permalink 0 Add to folder

MLA:

WorldCat Local:

JSTOR:

Cite your sources with confidence!

0 Look for tools in the library’s resources to help you cite your sources in MLA.

0 Check them against the MLA Handbook, Purdue OWL, or MLA Citation Guide on the library website.

WorldCat Local:

MLA: