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ENGL 1020--Composition II--Mr. William
Teem
Library Instructor: Tisa Houck, 697-2577
“I am not afraid that the
book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.”
Assignment: Research and write a critical analysis of Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Four to six sources are required and may be from the databases on this website, books on reserve in the library, or books from the library's circulating and online collections. No Internet sites are allowed. A report on the progress of the research is due on Feb. 22; an annotated bibliography is due on Mar. 12; and the final paper is due on April 11.
1. Watch two brief videos about her life and work at Georgia Women of Achievement.
2. Begin by reading an overview of the story from an essay in Literature Resource Center.
3. Find critical analysis from scholarly journals and books in these databases:
Type in the title of the story and select <Name of Work>.
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select
Put quotation marks around the title of the story:
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Also search within the full
text of the articles, for extra results
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Choose the Peer Reviewed tab to limit your results to scholarly journals, if desired.
Click on the <Advanced search> link above the search box.
Search by author's name and/or the title of your work.
Uncheck the
Narrow your search to only the Article type by checking that box.
4.
Search the catalog for books of criticism to
check out or view online.
Click the
tab
Type your author's name in the search box.
Click on the blue title link to see more information or to access an electronic book.
Check the STATUS for books that are available for check out.
Entries with
Online netLibrary Book Collection
as the Library Location are electronic books.
(You will need the current passwords to access
these books from off-campus.)
| Flannery O'Connor's dark comedies : the limits of inference / Carol Shloss. | Shloss, Carol. | 1980 | |||
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| Sacred groves and ravaged gardens : the fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor / Louise Westling. | Westling, Louise Hutchings. | 1985 | |||
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| Understanding Flannery O'Connor [electronic resource] / Margaret Earley Whitt. | Whitt, Margaret Earley, 1946- | 1997 | |||
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5.
Use reference books if you need to
find additional information. (Thanks
to Elijah Scott for the table below.)
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6. Cite your sources correctly by following the examples in this document:
MLA Citation Examples for Electronic Databases
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Please fill out the Library Instructor Evaluation before leaving the classroom. Thank you!
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Tisa Houck
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