A research guide for undergraduate students : English and American literature / Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Nancy L., 1950-

Contributor:

Huling, Nancy, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English literature.

American literature--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

American literature.

American literature--Research--Methodology.

English literature--Research--Methodology.

English literature--Research.

English-speaking countries--Intellectual life--Bibliography.

English-speaking countries.

Intellectual life.

American literature--History and criticism--Bibliography.

English literature--History and criticism--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

viii, 96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2006.

Summary:

For nearly twenty-five years A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students has helped students avoid the pitfalls of conducting library research for term papers and theses. Updated and revised, the sixth edition shows undergraduates how to use their research time efficiently and how to locate and evaluate material available from electronic databases and the Internet.

Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling bring their experience as librarians to a concise tour of the typical college library and provide easy-to-understand summaries of the print and electronic research tools available to students. Along the way, they describe nearly fifty reference works and research aids, including: Literature Resource Center, Expanded Academic ASAP, Literature Online (LION), Library of Congress Subject Headings, MLA International Bibliography, Oxford English Dictionary, ProQuest Research Library.

The Research Guide provides dozens of samples from these reference materials. It discusses how to navigate a library's electronic catalog; how to search for articles and books; how to use primary sources; and how to locate biographical information, quotations, and miscellaneous facts. A new chapter deals with bibliographic citation managers, such as EndNote.

Contents:

Conducting research in an electronic environment

Using library catalogs

Searching bibliographic databases

Searching the Web

Finding reviews

Using contextual primary sources

Finding supplementary information : other reference sources

One-stop shopping

Managing citations

Guides to research in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-91) and index.

ISBN:

0873529243

OCLC:

64592046

Publisher Number:

9780873529242