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ENGL 1102 - Comp II - THOMPSON: Articles & Media

Overviews and definitions

CREDO searches 600 references titles. This is a great resource for finding general/background information, and it's a good place to get started.
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Search Tips

For Database Searching:

  • Use " " to search for an exact phrase

            Example: "art therapy"

  • Use AND to combine two terms (william blake AND poetry)
  • Use OR to search either term (william blake AND (poetry OR painting))
  • Use NOT to exclude a word (william blake AND (poetry NOT painting))
  • Use * to truncate a word

            Example: comput* will find the words computer or computing

  • Use ? as a wildcard

            Example: ne?t will find neat, nest, next            

Databases for finding literary articles

When using the New York Times for the first time, click the link circled in red first:

What does "Peer-Reviewed" mean??

What Does "Peer Reviewed"  Mean?
 
Peer Review is "a process by which a scholarly work (such as a paper or a research proposal) is checked by a group of experts in the same field to make sure it meets the necessary standards before it is published or accepted."
     Source: Merriam-Webster
 
Publications that don't use peer review (Time, Cosmo, Salon) just rely on the judgementof the editors whether an article is up to snuff or not. That's why you can't count on them for solid, academic and/or scientific scholarship.

Reading criticism

Follow the link above, to the database record for the critical article on Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Access the full-text of the article and skim it, specifically the first and last parts of the articles.

What are some of the "marks" of a more critical, scholarly article?  Look at author, source, length, citations, and more importantly, the writing/content of the articles.