Research
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Click on this databases link to get started. Depending on your topic, the following databases will be helpful:
Click here for the Media Center site.
Also try some more cerebral websites:
Click on the two database links below to get started. Don't give up. Research includes a lot of trial and error!
Click on Advanced Search. Type your character or topic into the With all of the words box and type Othello into the next box "With at least one of the words."
Under Limit Results, click on Full Text and select the Overview, Analyses, Topics, and Characters boxes. For the non-character titled topics, be creative. Use different search terms or character names that you feel fall under those topic.
Username: rrhspirates Password: rrhspirates
Click on 9-12, click on Literary Reference Center, Click on Green bar at top for Literary Reference Center.
Click on "full text" box under Limit your results; otherwise, you may pull up summaries or review of articles instead of full length articles.
Username: rocky Password: river
Click here for a sample MLA formatted Works Cited page.
This is not a comprehensive list, but it covers the biggies.
PRIMARY SOURCE: Scholarly Edition
Author. Title. Original Date of Publication. Edited by First Name Last Name, Publisher, Date.
Example: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813. Edited by Tony Tanner, Penguin, 1972.
Example: Shakespeare, William. Othello: The Moor of Venice. Paradigm Publishing, 2005.
Database Article
Follow the order for the print publication and add the information for the database. See below.
Author. “Title of Entry.” Title of Work. Ed. (Leave this out if there is not editor.) Volume. (Leave this out if there is no volume #.) City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication, Pages. Title of database. URL. Accessed date.
*If page information is not available, insert n. pag.
Example:
May, Charles E. “Edgar Allan Poe.” Magill’s Survey of American Literature. Ed. Frank N.
Magill. Vol. 5. New York:Marshall Cavendish,1991.1640-1654. Ebsco Literary
Reference Center. www.blahblahblah. Accessed 23 Feb. 2015.
Anthology or collection (if you used a chapter or article from a book that has a collection of articles)
First name of essay/chapter author. “Title of Essay/Chapter.” Title of Collection, edited by Editor Name(s),
Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.
Example:
May, Charles E. “Edgar Allan Poe.” Magill’s Survey of American Literature, edited by Frank N.
Magill, Marshall Cavendish Publishers, 1991,1640-1654.
Magill’s Survey of World/American Literature & American Writers or British Writers
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Name of Book from which the article came. Volume #, Year, Pages.
Crawford, John W. “Alexander Pope.” Magill’s Survey of World Literature. Vol. 6, 1993, 1521-1532.
*The author of the article can be found at the end of the article in the red and blue books and at the beginning of the article for British Writers.
CLC, NCLC, TCLC (brown books)
Each article in the chapter is cited separately:
Author of article. “Article Title.” Source where originally published. Volume #, Date, original pages. Rpt. in
Brown book title. Edited by First Last. Publisher, Year, Pages where the article can be found in the
Brown book.
*Be sure to put an Ed. after the editor’s name or an Eds. if you have more than one editor.
Literature and Its Times
“Entry Title.” Literature and Its Times. Vol. #, edited by First Name Last Name. Publisher, Date, Page
numbers of entry.
“Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.” Literature and Its Times. Vol. 4, edited by Joyce Moss and George
Wilson. Gale, 1997, 254-259.