ENGL 1020: Composition II

Instructor: L. Miller

Librarian: E. Scott

Research Assignment

 

“life inspires art”  ~  “art interprets life”

1) The short story “The Curse” by Andre Dubus as compared with “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” by Draley and Latane.


2) Poe’s short story “Masque of the Red Death” -- one theory of science fiction writers and the writers of the bizarre is that they also interpret or predict events. One source names Jules Verne as having predicted a positive, technological future, while H.G. Wells warned against “science gone mad.” The comparison article for “Red Death” is “Averting the Next Pandemic,” which concerns avian influenza, its potential as a pandemic and research being done on the virus.

  • 1,000-word paper

  • total of five sources, three additional to those above

  • context of the work—who wrote it and when

 

Reference Books

 Located in the Reference section

 

 

Literary Criticism for

"The Masque of the Red Death"
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

1:500, 513, 521

16:306, 324, 331, 335

55:151

 Ref PN 761 .N5
Short Story Criticism

1:379, 389-90, 398, 406

22:305, 307

35:322

 Ref PN 3373 .S386
World Literature Criticism

4:2754-55, 2760

 Ref PN 523 .W67 1992

    

Literary Criticism for

"The Curse"
Critical Survey of Short Fiction

2

 Ref PN 3321 .C7 2001

Masterplots II: Short Story Series

2

 Ref PN 3326 .M27 2004
See also the Literature Resource Center and other databases below, as well as Biography Resource Center.

 

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

For Example . . .

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

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 search.

For Example . . .

 
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text will be an excellent place to find scholarly articles for your research assignment.  Try searching for the title of the work you have chosen to analyze, or try searching for the broader social issue topic. 

For Example . . .
Notice also that once you do a search, OmniFile gives you a list of suggested subjects that may help to further refine your research.  For example, based on the search shown above, OmniFile suggests . . .

  MasterFILE Premiere will be an excellent resource for articles about the social aspects of your assignment.

The sample searches at the right should point you in the right direction!

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