ENGL 1302 @ NLC Library 

Short Story Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis 1 TR spring 2009.rtf 

HANDOUTS

• Library Essentials -
• Using Online Databases -
• Developing a Search Strategy -
• Literary Criticism -

Group Activities: 

• Find It! 

  Bauer, Margaret D. "Alice Walker: Another Southern Writer Criticizing Codes Not Put To 'Everyday Use'." Studies in Short Fiction 29.2 (Spring 1992): 143-151.

• Search Strategies
• Information Evaluation - Use it or Lose it!
  • Rose for Emily Article
  • Another Rose for Emily Article
  • Scholarly vs. Popular Magazines

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

• A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
• Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories
• Master Plots II: Short Story Series 
• The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English 
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature 

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

   Databases by Subject - Literature

SEARCH STRATEGIES 

• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• IDB & ILL

NEED HELP? Contact Us!

Call: (210) 486-5388

Email: nlc-reference@alamo.edu

Library Instructors: Kristin Johnson, Sarah Garrett