Chattanooga State Library

ENGL 1020: Composition II

Instructor: Brabham

Librarian: E. Scott

Writing Project

Annotated Bibliography - 8 sources total

What's an annotated bibiliography?

Check out this example from Cornell University.

Reference Books

 Located in the Reference section

 

Short Story Criticism and Analysis
Short Story Criticism Ref PN 3373 .S386
Masterplots II: Short Story Series Ref PN 3326 .M27
Critical Survey of Short Fiction Ref PN 3321 .C7

General Author Information
Contemporary Authors Ref Z 1224 .C6
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Ref Z 1224 .C582
Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref PN 441 .D53

Cumulative index is located at the end of the last volume

American Writers
American Writers Ref PS 129 .A55
American Women Writers Ref PS 147 .A4
Modern American Woman Writers Ref PS 151 .M54
Twentieth-Century American Literature Ref PS 221 .T834
Modern American Literature Ref PS 221 .C8
Reader's Guide to Fifty American Poets Ref PS 316 .J723

General Literature Criticism
Black Literary Criticism Ref PS 153 .N5 B556

Contemporary Literary Criticism

For writers now living or deceased since 1960

 Ref PN 771.C59

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

For writers who lived between 1900 - 1960

Ref PN 771 .G27

Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism

For writers who lived between 1800 - 1900

Ref PN 761 .N5
World Literature Criticism Ref PN 523 .W67
Twentieth-Century Criticism of British & American Literature to 1904 Ref PR 85 .C76

 

 Use the library catalog to find books in our library about your chosen topic.

Visit the library catalog at http://library.chattanoogastate.edu

Sometimes as you search the catalog, you'll find an item that looks like this:

Notice the phrase [electronic resource] in the title and the location of  Online netLibrary Book Collection -- these two items let you know that this book is a netLibrary online book.  To read this book, click on the title, then click on the Read this ebook online link within the record to browse the book in the NetLibrary database.

 

Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles

Browse electronic and print periodicals in literature.

To quickly locate articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers, visit some library databases, including:

Literature Resource Center is an excellent resource for your research.  For information about a specific work, start with the "Name of Work" search.

For Example . . .
MagillOnLiterature Plus is an excellent source for  overviews, criticism and reviews of novels or short stories.  You can begin with a basic keyword search, of notice the many search options such as Title, Author, and Character(s).

Searching MagillOnLiterature Plus for A Christmas Carol leads to four articles, including book reviews and character reviews!

MagillOnLiterature Plus is also a good source for literary explication.

For Example . . .

Examples:

 The JSTOR archive contains the full text of 322 scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title.

Searching JSTOR is a little different than some of the other databases.  To get the best results, use the Advanced Search and be sure to uncheck the box for "Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR" AND check the box for "Article."  The searches shown at the left are good examples, but you may need to experiment with different keywords to get better results.
 
The library also has a couple of excellent databases of VIDEOS that will be helpful for this assignment . . . be sure to ask for the unique usernames and passwords for these databases.

 

Need help citing sources from Databases?

Be sure to visit the MLA Citation Examples for Electronic Databases!

 

Ask your librarian or instructor for the user id and password to access these databases off campus--or view instructions online.

 

Please complete the Library Instructor Evaluation.

 

Still have questions?

Visit the library or call the Reference Desk at 697-4436.

Spring 2008