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LIT 2010: RESEARCH IN THE INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE

PROFESSOR GUTTING

LIBRARIAN: KEN FRANKEL

MARCH 20, 2008

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding information in books and articles about the interpretation of fiction.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• The Library Catalog allows you to search for books, government documents, DVDs, electronic books, and other materials in the Library's collection. The catalog will tell you if the library owns a particular periodical (journal or magazine) but does not include the articles found in periodicals. To find these you must use a different database (see below). 

• The Advanced search screen allows you to combine terms using “and, or, not” as well as limiting a search by location, date, format, or language.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page under  "Quick Links" and then "Indexes/Databases". When accessing the databases from off campus, first be sure to click on the Off Campus Connect link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number.    

• Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors  
  Provides access to articles on biographical information and literary criticism and interpretation.  Includes authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history and journalism.
   

• Literature Online (LION)
  This is a searchable electronic collection of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose and the full text of 180 literature journals. 
   

• MLA International Bibliography
  Includes references to literary theory and criticism from journal articles, books, dissertations, proceedings, essay collections and bibliographies. 
   

• Humanities Full Text
  Provides articles on literary and social criticism literature and other subject areas.  The full text coverage of articles found in this electronic resource begins in January 1995.

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Accesses viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
   

• Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®
  A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF LB2369 .G53 2003   Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2003.

• MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
  Comprehensive guide from Purdue University on using MLA guidelines in research papers, and citing all sources from a single book to government documents.
   

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