LibGuides: English: Quick Start

Top Library Resource

Literature Resource Center (GALE)
Literature Resource Center (LRC) is your one-stop shop for all things literature related - criticisms, primary sources, biographies and work overviews. LRC is the easiest to find criticism of an author and their work. Good analysis relies on an author's insights into their work. Sources, like author interviews, contain this kind of information.

Supplemental resources

Arts & Humanities Database
Are you looking for literary criticism or literary research from top scholarly journals and academic resources? The Arts and Humanities is a good place to start. This database has a ton of information- articles, books, and reviews - and it is easy to become lost in it all. To help see the sources through the research, one can focus their search by topic or artist and possibly limit search results to "peer review."

Online Encyclopedias and Books

Gale Virtual Reference Collection
Encyclopedias are credible academic sources you can use at every stage of research. Get an overview of an unfamiliar topic, find a bibliography of important sources and gather more in-depth information. Browse encyclopedias by subject area or keyword search.

Gale Virtual Reference Collection is part of Gale Group. It is available both on-campus and off-campus. Access GVRC from the Find Books and Articles section of the library homepage.
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO)
Books provide in-depth information on a topic. Not a finding a book on your topic? Use a book’s index to find pages that discuss your topic or scan the table of contents for book chapters. The best part about eBooks most support keyword searching so you can quickly identify the most important parts.

Look for this database at the bottom of the EBSCOhost Choose Database list

Possible search terms -

English literature -- (Time period), American literature -- (Time period), (Topic or name) -- Drama, (Topic or name) -- Poetry

MLA citations

Journal Article

Reeve, Charles. "Andy Warhol's Death's and the Assembly Line Autobiography." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 34.4 (2011): 657-75. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13, Feb. 2013.

Book

Arnold, Dana. Art History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print.

Website

The Getty. J. Paul Getty Trust, n.d. Web. 13, Feb. 2013.

Note: ProQuest and Ebsco databases provide citations in MLA format

MLA Quick Citation Guide
by Mary Johnson Last Updated Apr 18, 2022 94 views this year

MLA citations tutorial
Basic rules of MLA style from the MLA website.
NoodleTools
This resource can help you manage citations and create an MLA works cited page. Ask your CSM librarian for details!
NoodleTools Express
Just need one or two quick citations? Simply generate them in NoodleTools Express and copy and paste what you need into your document.

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