English   Tags: american_literature, biographies, biography, english, english_literature, literature  

This research guide will help you:

Especially helpful for English 240 students!

1. Library Catalog - books are often your best bet for biographical information or literary criticism! If you are looking for criticism about a specific work (especially a poem or short story), search the author's name as a keyword or subject, then use the book's index to locate info on the particular work.
   


2. MLA & Project Muse - for finding scholarly articles.


3. JSTOR - for finding scholarly articles. JSTOR does not usually have the most recent years of a journal, see   Moving Wall


4. Literature Resource Center - for finding biographical information about an author, as well as snippets of criticism.


5. Literary Reference Center Plus - for finding plot summaries, book reviews, poems, and short stories.