ENGL 2333 @ NLC Library 

 

Team Research Assignment

Diana Hacker website - Student Sites

 

HANDOUTS 

• Library Essentials - MS Word  
• Using Online Databases -
• Developing a Search Strategy -
• Literary Criticism -
• Citing Sources - 

 

ACTIVITIES

 

Start your research today!

 

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

 

Encyclopedia of literature and politics : censorship, revolution, and writing  NLC REFERENCE

 

NEW! 

Gale contextual encyclopedia of world literature [electronic resource]. 

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture [electronic resource]

  

García Márquez [electronic resource] : the man and his work

The comic machine, the narrative machine, and the political machine in the works of Molière

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley [electronic resource] : writing lives

Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different

 

 

 

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Academic Search Complete

• World History Collection

Databases by Subject - Literature  

• Literature Resource Center(GALE)
• Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)  
• Literature Criticism Online

 

More Databases by Subject

 

INTERNET SITES

     Hot Links   

     The Victorian Web.org - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

     American Masters - James Baldwin 

     The Modern Word:  Macondo - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

     The Declaration of Independence

     Moliere

 

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

 

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Library Instructor(s):  Linda Plevak