Research Project

This year you will be required to do a variety of research projects & this paper (Resources Sheet) will be able to help you with many of those assignments. Unfortunately, it will not help you with all and even though that number is very small it can grow very large if we do not use them when we can. We used to have a wide variety of online databases that covered all the content areas, but because the district noticed that not all of the online resources were being used they stopped providing them. I do admit that these databases do cost a lot of money to provide, if we don't use them the district sees it as a loss. However, there were some wonderful databases for literary criticism that have expired, so I would like to strongly recommend that everyone get a public library card. This card is free. And if you already have a card, but have fines don't let that discourage you because even if you have a balance, you can still use the online databases, so that is a plus.

But first I want to go over the Resource sheet.

Encyclopedias

EBSCO

* Catcher in the Rye

o Choose Magazines, Books, Biography, Primary Source ONLY

o #19 Result is an effective criticism

 Positive: notice the recent documents are first

 Negative: Different types of articles; can be time consuming

Possible Solutions: Read the Abstracts

Look at the Magazine Titles

* Orwell's 1984

o #19 Notice the Document Type: Literary Criticism as opposed to a book review

o You can hyperlink to the journal it came from and access other lit crits

If you know the journal title you can look up a specific article:

The Explicator

American Scholar

Twentieth Century Literature

American Poetry Review

BUT- you have to know that information; that's where Google can be of service

Facts on File

Public Library Card applications