Sub sections:
English 101
This Assignment Guide will help you to find information in your subject area.
Contents
Recommended readings on reserve
Begin by looking for any books or journal articles recommended by your lecturers or tutors. Don't forget eReserve & exam papers, linked underneath the 'Find Resources' heading on the University Library page or through MyUNE. eReserve provides online access to PDF copies of articles as chosen by your lecturer. You will need your UNE username and password to access eReserve and Adobe's Acrobat Reader software (available for free) to view the PDF documents.
The UNE Library Online Catalogue
Look here to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals or audiovisual items and all research materials held at UNE.
If you already have the details of a book, the best way to search for it in the catalogue is by author or title. Type the title or author into the search box in the web-based catalogue and choose the Title or Author search by using the pull-down menu.
Try a Subject search to find library resources about particular topics. Libraries use standardised subject headings. For correct headings consult the large red volumes of Library of Congress Subject Headings near the Reference Collection on the ground floor of Dixson Library or contact the Service Desk on 02 6773 2458.
You can also try a Keyword search (help is here) and then check the proper Subject Headings to use.
Some suggestions for useful subject searches for English are:|
australian literature |
children's literature - english |
dramatists |
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english literature - |
english literature - |
english literature - history and criticism |
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poetry modern |
motion pictures |
motion picture industry |
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cinematography |
shakespeare, william |
austen, jane |
Other Subject headings you may find useful for your assignment are:
Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets
Sonnets, English - History and criticism
To find works by a particular author, try an Author search e.g. shakespeare william. To find critical or biographical information about an author and his/her works, do a Subject search such as austen jane.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Use dictionaries, encyclopaedias, bibliographies and other ready reference tools to help you clarify terms and find background information for your assignment topics. There are online reference tools linked on the English & Literature Research Guide. There are also many general online dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
The Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection contains a section on Literature you may find very useful for your assignment. The titles include The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, A Dictionary of Shakespeare and The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. There are also similar works about Australian, New Zealand, Irish, American, Canadian, Children's and Classical literature.
The items listed below are held in Dixson Library:
R801.9503/E56 | Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. (1993) |
R803/B177c | The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. (1990) |
R803/C964d/1991 | A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 3rd ed. |
R808.810016/G758i/ 1994 | The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 10th ed. |
R809.03/C726 | The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. (1995) |
R809.034/N714 | Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism. (1981-) Contains excerpts from criticisms of the works of writers from 1800 to 1900 |
R809.04/C761 | Contemporary Literary Criticism. (1973-) CLC contains excerpts from criticisms of the works of writers living from 1960 to the present |
R809.04/T971 | Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. (1978-) TCLC contains excerpts from criticisms of the works of writers from 1900 to 1960 |
R809.2/D763 | Drama Criticism. (1992-). Theatre reviews, criticisms and biographies |
R820.16/A615 | Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. (1920-) |
R820.3/O98/1985 | Oxford Companion to English Literature. |
R820.3/O98p | Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. (1994) |
R820.9/C178/1993 | The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. |
Finding journal articles for your assignment
If you want to find references to articles you need to use a journal index. These databases tell you the titles of articles, authors, and (most importantly) the source — journal title, year, volume number, issue number and pages. The databases provide either an abstract (a short summary of the topics covered) or subject descriptors so that you can judge if an article is going to be useful to you. Increasingly indexes are also providing the article itself, online in full-text.
If you find an article that is not available online in full-text, then try a Journal Title search in the catalogue to see if UNE holds the journal you want in print or online in another database. More details about how to find journals in the catalogue are here.
The Research guide for English & Literature has a long list of all the Recommended and Useful databases.
Journal databases recommended for ENGL101
The following databases have many articles relevant to your assignment.
JSTOR
This database contains hundreds of literary journals in full-text going back to their first issue (but not the most recent volumes).
- Choose JSTOR from the list of Recommended databases and click on the Advanced search link.
- Enter your UNE username/password when prompted.
- In the first search box type jane austen and in the second type "pride and prejudice". Quotes make the search terms a full phrase.
- Take the tick off the box next to Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR.
- You can also limit your search Type by ticking the box next to Article and further down the screen limit the Discipline to Language and Literature.
- When you click the Search button you will see the results of your search.
- You can use similar searches for william shakespeare AND othello or william shakespeare AND sonnets
- You can print or save each article or mark several citations and email the list. Check JSTOR Help if you want to know more.
GALE Databases - containing Literature Resource Centre
- Choose Gale Databases from the list of Recommended databases.
- Enter your UNE username/password when prompted.
- Click on the Continue button.
- In the first search box, change the Keyword search to Person-by or About and type shakespeare.
In the second search box use Name of Work and type othello. - When you click the blue Search button you will see a list of results for Literature Criticism.
- Click on the purple tabs if you want to see these results separated into Biographies, Topic & Work Overviews, and so on.
- If there are too many results go back to the previous page. Choose Keyword as your search type on the third row and add a keyword, like iago.
- For Sonnet 73 try sonnet as Name of Work and shakespeare as Person-by or About. There are not many results so it is not really necessary to add 73 as a Keyword.
- You can mark records and print/save/email your results.
ProQuest - Contains many journals on a wide range of subjects including literature
ProQuest is similar to the Gale Databases in that it contains a variety of different subject databases with a lot of full-text magazines and journals.
- Choose ProQuest from the list of Recommended databases.
- Enter your UNE username/password when prompted.
- In the first search box type william shakespeare and in the second one type othello
- Tick the box to limit your search to Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed and click the Search button.
- You will see your results listed and whether or not they are available online.
- You can mark your records so you can then print/save/email the list.
- If an article you want is not available online then use the Find it button or look directly in the catalogue to see if the journal is held in print or online in another database.