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LIFE & WORKS A Research Paper. Ms. Caston -Smith Pre-AP English 9 October 2009. Who Wrote This Book? What is It About?. Did You Know That S.E. Hinton…. …is a woman? …was a tomboy as a teenager and had all male friends?
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LIFE &WORKSA Research Paper Ms. Caston-Smith Pre-AP English 9 October 2009
Did You Know That S.E. Hinton… • …is a woman? • …was a tomboy as a teenager and had all male friends? • …grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma , where The Outsiders takes place? • …hated the separation of social classes that was prevalent in her high school?
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Finding Print Sources Use DESTINY, the SPHS library’s online catalog, to find…
Finding Print Sources DESTINY—Use a basic search for books ABOUT your author.
Finding Print Sources BIOGRAPHIES and AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Use the index!
Finding Print Sources Literary Criticism
Finding Print Sources Remember the word “Sidelights.”
Finding Print Sources Don’t miss these print resources! • Contemporary Black BiographyLiterary LifelinesLiterature and Its Times • REF 920.009 CON REF 809 LIT REF 809 LIT
Not Finding Print Sources If you type in your author’s name and nothing happens, try typing in a search term like “author” or “writer” or the title of a book by the author.
Finding Print Sources Fill in the sources page as you go! Your Turn http://destiny.hoover.k12.al.us
Finding Electronic Sources • Author’s Official Website • AVL periodical (magazine or newspaper) • AVL Scholarly Source
Finding Electronic Sources Where is yourAlabama Virtual Library card?
Finding Electronic Sources • Let’s go to the AVL!
Finding Electronic Sources Database #1 Literature Resources from Gale
Finding Electronic Sources • AVL Scholarly Source
OLD MLA NEW MLA Grisham, John and Tom Nolan. "John Grisham Testifies." Mystery Scene. 79.(Apr. 2003): 12-18. Rpt. inContemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 273. Detroit: Gale, 12-18. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 20 Oct. 2009.
An excerpt from “John Grisham Testifies” • Grisham]: Well, when I started writing what eventually became A Time to Kill, the first thing I'd ever written, my motives were pure. I had a story that I wanted to tell, based on something I'd seen in a courtroom; and I concocted what I thought was a really compelling courtroom drama, as seen through the eyes of a young attorney in a small town--very similar to myself at that time. I was a happily married, but struggling young lawyer.
Finding Electronic Sources Database #2 Student Research Center
Don’t limit your search to magazines and newspapers (a.k.a. periodicals)—many of these are book reviews. You can still find periodicals by limiting to “Biographies.”
An Edwardian Childhood AgathaMary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890, the probably accidental afterthought in a family that included an 11-year-old sister, Madge, and a 10-year-old brother, Monty. As a child, Agatha was very much a member of the Edwardian leisure class--that world of house parties and tennis matches and travel throughout the Empire that she evoked again and again in her novels.
Finding Electronic Sources Google your author’s official website.
Source Citations The MLA Handbook, 7h ed. is NEW!!!! Citations are DIFFERENT THAN BEFORE! Multiple copies are available at the circulation desk! Quick online guides… University of Nevada Las Vegas MLA Guide http://www.library.unlv.edu/help/mla_2009.pdf Cornell University MLA Guide http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla
Source Citations Some basic citations from the MLA 7th Edition Periodical from a database (MLA 5.6.4—PAGE 192): Ritson, Mark. “Phelps Will Not Go to Pot.” Marketing. 11 Feb 2009: 22. Business Source Premier. Web. 20 Oct. 2009. Article from a Website(this varies—see MLA 5.6--PAGES 181-193) Pesca, Mike. “Michael Vick Happy for New Chance in Philadelphia.” National Public Radio. Natl. Public Radio, 14 Aug. 2009. Web. 20 October 2009. Book Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Levine-Scholastic, 2000. Print.
