ISP resources
Booklist
Internet Secondary
Sources
Provides a selective list of online literary criticism for 19th and 20th century authors. Scholarly resources on Victorian authors and literature. Provides high-quality, easy to use resources for students to help them make essential connections between literature and their cultural context. ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Colour "An instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color". Source for biographical information as well as bibliographies about North American women writers of many ethnic backgrounds. Some entries contain links to sites with critical articles. Doing a quick catalogue search for either the author or title of your book is always a great place to start! Avoid any books that have the call number FIC (since these are fiction), but anything with a numbered call number could be useful. Most of the books that you are looking for you will find in the 813 to 895 area of the library! |
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Secondary Sources
(databases, etc ...)
Online databases and ebooks:
Gale Cengage Learning Infotrac This is a large selection of databases, ebooks, movies and more provided to all YRDSB High Schools. See the library circulation desk for a password. You can access this resource at school or anywhere you have access to the Internet. Remember, using "" around your search terms (if you are using more than one) and a + sign between them will help you narrow down your search results! This database includes Explora Canada, EBSCOhost Web Academic Research and Reference Centre, Canadian Points of View, Science Reference Centre, Literary Reference Centre Plus, and Explora Educator's Edition. No user ID or password is needed when accessing this database from school. To access outside of school, please see the library circulation desk for user ID and password. Salem Press Literature e-Books Ask for the username and password at the circulation desk. Click on registered user login to access e-books. These are digital versions of the books we have in the library, so even if someone else has taken out the book, you can still access its contents! This is the Google that you are familiar with, with one main difference: the sources are limited exclusively to scholarly and academic works (exactly the types of sources that you will need for your ISP research)! Remember, using "" around your search terms (if you are using more than one) and a + sign between them will help you narrow down your search results! Some Research Tips In terms of your research, it is always difficult to decide where to begin. You want to use a variety of sources in order to gather your information, but you want all of them to focus on one or more of the following:
And above all, remember to search smarter not harder! Use the limit search option (when using a database) to narrow down your results. Lastly, try using the author's webpage as a way in as well, they often have a section on resources which includes many useful links, articles, reviews, etc.
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Research Tools
Types of sources:
Finding
information on the internet:
Evaluating
websites:
Reading and making research
notes:
Plagiarism:
MLA citations:
Used by Humanities (e.g.
Drama, English, Modern Languages, Music, Visual
Arts).
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