Literary Criticism Resources
 

• Download the research planner

• Send Ms. Hickson comments about the pathfinder
   

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• Databases

• Research strategies

Electronic databases are available in the Electronic Databases section of the NHHS Media Center home page. To use the databases from home, you will need the list of passwords, which is available in the Media Center.

• EBSCO Literary Reference Center

• Facts on File-Bloom's Literary Reference Online 

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• JSTOR (to use from home, you must request a remote username/password from school first; see Ms. Hickson for help)

• Literature Resource Center

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Effective researchers use keywords and synonyms combined with Boolean operators (and, or, not) to create search strings that result in a manageable number of relevant results. Review these tutorials to earn how to identify keywords and use Boolean searching. (Note that all of these resources come from universities, demonstrating that colleges expect students to be skilled researchers.)

• Rutgers University: Selecting keywords (section 3)

• University of Idaho: Creating a search query

• University of Sydney: Search smarter, search faster video

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