Research Starter/Background Information
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowFind background information on your author or poet.
Note: This does not count towards your peer-reviewed source.
Search for Book Chapters/Books
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window ProQuest Ebook Central provides ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers. To create a personal bookshelf or to access off-campus, sign in using your Emmanuel username and password. For more details on using Ebook Central explore the Proquest LibGuide.
- Oxford Handbooks Online - Religion Subject Collection This link opens in a new window The religion area of OHO provides new essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies.
Critical Article on Work and Background Information on Author/Poet
- Literature Online This link opens in a new windowTexts of over 355,000 literary works with searchable, full-text criticism and reference resources for the study of literature in English. Literature Online also provides searchable indexes of literary criticism, including ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and the full text of over 330 literature journals
- Gale Literature Resource Center - LRC This link opens in a new windowFind up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
- Ebsco search for ENGL2325Search across the following databases: Academic Search Premier, MLA International Bibliography, Humanities International Complete, and Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA total of more than 900 full-text scholarly journal titles in an online archive beginning with the first issue of each title. The archive includes nine JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections.
- In JSTOR, there is usually a time lag in full-text content. Use JSTOR in conjunction with our current online databases and print holdings.
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAll journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
Theology and Religious Studies Databases
See also the Theology and Religious Studies Guide for further databases and resources.
- ATLA Religion Databases with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®) with ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's full text collection of 300+ major religion and theology journals. This collection also includes content previously available in the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Indec (ATLA CPLI). This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
- ProQuest Religion This link opens in a new windowProvides international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought.
Suggested Magazines
- The Atlantic
- In addition to the monthly magazine, explore the The Atlantic web site for daily updates.
Major Newspapers
- Boston Globe (1980 - present) This link opens in a new windowBrowse by issue [Content is updated daily by 8 a.m.]:
- New York Times publications This link opens in a new window
Searches across New York Times, Late Edition, New York Times (Online), New York Times International, New York Times Español, New York Times Magazine, New York Times (video), New York Times Book Review, and The Daily (podcast). Filter results by Publication Title to limit to a specific title.
- New York Times - Academic Pass This link opens in a new windowUse the TimesMachine site to explore over 150 years of Times journalism, as it originally appeared.
Tips for Searching for Websites with Academic Credentials
- When searching the Internet using Google.com, includes site:.edu in your search phrase (to limit your results to educational web sites).
- Search Google Advanced Search for more search options.
- Search Google Advanced Search for more search options.
- Evaluation the potential sources through lateral reading of the website.
According to a study by Wineberg and McGrew (2017):
"Historians and students often fell victim to easily manipulated features of websites, such as official-looking logos and domain names. They read vertically, staying within a website to evaluate its reliability. In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site."
APA Citation Style
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: Ref. Desk BF 76.7 .P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832154Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- American Psychological Association (APA): APA Style
- Style and Grammar Guidelines
- Reference Examples - Includes Journal Articles, Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, Books, Chapter in an Edited Books, and Web Sites.
- In-Text Citations - Includes Author-Date Citation System, Appropriate Level of Citation, Quotations, and Citing Secondary Sources.
- Instructional Aids - Includes Handouts and Guides and Sample Papers.
- Bias-Free Language
- Style and Grammar Guidelines
Handouts
MLA Handbook by Call Number: Available at the Library Reference Desk.ISBN: 9781603293518
Handouts
See also the MLA Citation Style guide
Citation Generator
Note: You are still responsible for your citations even when using a citation generator. Always verify your citations.
For APA: APA Style (References and In Text Citations).
For MLA: Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) MLA.
For APA: APA Style (References and In Text Citations).
For MLA: Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) MLA.
- ZoteroBibAfter searching for your source or manually entering the information, select the citation option.
- Click on the source to update information.
- Click on the quotation mark icon to the right of your source for the in text citation. Include page number(s) for direct quotes.
- Copy individual citations or the complete list.
Below is an example for Modern Language Association, 9th edition:
Using Chat GPT for topic generation
- Go to https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
- Click on Try ChatGPT
- Click Sign Up
- Register with an email account, and choose your password.
- Verify your account in your email address.
- Go to https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
- Click Log In
- Log in with your credentials you set in Step 4.
- Enter a prompt to get an AI response.
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Reading and Understanding Poetry
- Glossary of Poetic TermsPoetry Foundation
- How to Read a PoemThe Writing Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism “is the overall term for studies concerned with defining, classifying, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of literature” (Abrams, 1993, p. 39).
Works of literary criticism may focus on:
- an individual author,
- a group of authors, a genre,
- a time frame or historical period,
- an individual work (e.g. a poem, novel, short story, etc.),
- or a particular literary theory.
Works Cited
Abrams, Meyer Howard. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 6th ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993.
Bible Search
- oremus Bible BrowserUse this link to access the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible. Search by passage or scroll down to the third search area for keyword searches (e.g. Samaritan). Deselect the check boxes at the top of the page to see verse numbers, footnotes, and section headings.