SHS Library Assignment Resources English OR QuickLink on SHS Library OPALS OPALS is the new SHS Library Catalog. This is the portal for accessing all print and electronic sources owned by the Spackenkill Library. This is a always a good starting point for your research. This catalog is accessible through the internet, but you may need a password to access electronic books from home. Poetry resources on OPALS. You may use OPALS to access both works of poetry and literary criticisms for use in your booklet. Try a keyword search on your favorite poet or poem. Poetry for Students Poetry for Students contains articles that include information on authors, themes, interpretations and selected criticisms for your poems. Use the SHS Library Catalog to find which volume contains your work OR click the direct link on the SHS Library website. This resource is available both in print and electronic form. Citation: For the electronic version, copy the MLA citation at the end of the article. Do NOT include the URL. Check citations for accuracy against the MLA formats given. For the print version, see the included MLA citation suggestions at the end of this packet. NOTE: Criticisms may be cited differently than other sections of this title. Use the Reprint in, Reprint of and Excerpt from formats. Student Resources in Context Student Resources in Context has a variety of sources but the Literature Criticisms will be of the most use to you. Click on this source type on the left side of your results screen. Citation: Copy the MLA citation at the end of the article. Do NOT include the URL. Check for accuracy. SHS Library Website http://www.spackenkillschools.org/shs/library These resources are linked at the Assignment Resources, English section of the SHS Library Website.
Literature Resource Center Literature Resource Center contains a wide range of information on poetry and poets. Attempt to search the title of your work encased in quotes. If this gives you too many results, add keywords pertaining to your chosen topics. Use the tabs above the results to narrow to Literature Criticisms or Topic & Work Overviews. Citation: Copy the MLA citation at the end of the article. Do NOT include the URL. Check citations for accuracy against the MLA formats given. JSTOR JSTOR contains exclusively articles from scholarly journals and texts. A search will give you results with any mention of your key terms. Click View list of pages with search terms to quickly ascertain if the source will be of value to you. Citation: Do NOT copy the citation at the end of the article. It is not in MLA format. Use the information from it to put in this format: Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Article Title." Journal Title Vol#.Issue# (Year): page(s). JSTOR. Web 1 Apr. 2013. Change to info for your article. Change to today s date Hague, Angela. A Faithful Anatomy of Our Times: Reassessing Shirley Jackson. Frontiers: A Journal of Women s Studies 26.2 (2005): 73-96. JSTOR. Web. 1 Apr. 2013. Bloom s Literary Reference Bloom s contains information on topics related to works and their authors. Use the tabs above the results to narrow to Analyses and Criticisms or Topics and Themes. Citation: Do NOT copy the citation at the end of the article. It is not in MLA format. Use the information from it to put in this format: Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Entry Title." Book Title. Place of Book Publication: Publisher, year. Pages if given. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Web. 1 Feb. 2013. Change to today s date Change to info for your item. Westarp, Karl-Heinz. He Would Have Been a Good Man: Compassion and Meanness in Truman Capote and Flannery O Connor. Flannery O Connor s Radical Reality. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2006. 42-55. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Web. 1 Feb. 2013.
Common MLA citation formats Book: Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of publication: Publisher, Year. Print. Nardo, Don. A Travel Guide to Ancient Rome. San Diego: Thompson-Gale, 2003. Print. Book in a series: Last Name, First Name. Title of book. City of publication: Publisher, Year. Print. Title of series. Lakken, Stuart A. The John F. Kennedy Assassination. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Print. Crime Scene Investigations. An article from a print scholarly journal: Last Name, First Name. Title of the article. Journal Name Vol#.Issue# (Year): page(s). Print. Kan, Haidong. Climate Change and Human Health in China. Environmental Health Perspectives 119.2 (2011): A60-A61. Print. An article from a print magazine: [Note: cite the month(s) and year a magazine is published if no day is given.] Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Article Title of Magazine Day Month Year: Pages. Print. Butters, Andrew Lee. "Iraq s Messy Democracy." Time 15 Mar. 2010: 26-29. Print. An article from a journal, accessed online: If item accessed online, remove Print and add this information database or website where accessed, Web, date accessed. Last Name, First Name. Title of Article. Title of Publication. Volume#. Issue# (Year): Page(s). Database Name. Web. Day Month Year accessed. Kan, Haidong. Climate Change and Human Health in China. Environmental Health Perspectives 119.2 (2011): A60-A61. JSTOR. Web. 1 Mar. 2013. Shi, Yafeng, et al. Recent and Future Climate Change in Northwest China. Climatic Change 80.3-4 (2007): 379-393. Google Scholar. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
Page on a Website: Last Name, First Name of the Author/Editor of the Site; if not available omit. Title of Article/part of larger work. Title of the Website. Name of publisher/sponsor or N.p., Day Month Year of publication date/ update or n.d. Web. Day Month Year of access. Compulsive Behavior in Cats. ASPCA. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. Find publisher/sponsor and date near at the end of the website Paramaguru, Kharunya. The Biggest Threat to U.S. Wildlife? Cats. Time Newsfeed. Time, Inc., 31 Jan. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. Excerpt, or Reprint with a different title Basic rule: Citation for new source (in hand). Medium. Citation for original source. If source says Excerpt substitute the words Excerpt from for Rpt. of Last name, First name. New Title of Article. Title of New Source. Ed. Editor First name Last name.vol.# if present. Edition if present. City of publication: Publisher, Year. Pages. Print. Title of series (if present). Rpt. of Title of Original Article. Title of Original Source. + rest of publishing information depending on type Daly, Richard K. The Secrets of My Success: A Diabetic Takes Control. Diabetes. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2003. 135-136. Print. Contemporary Issues Companion. Rpt. of I Whipped Diabetes and Got Off All Meds! My Doctor s Amazed. Prevention Mar. 1998. N. pag. magazine Orvell, Miles. A Critical Study of A Good Man is Hard to Find. Readings on Flannery O Connor. Ed. Jennifer A. Hurley. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2001. 117-122. Print. The Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to American Authors. Excerpt from Invisible Parade: The Fiction of Flannery O Connor. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. book Reprint with the same title : Basic rule: Citation for original article. Medium. Citation information for new source (in hand). journal Last name, First name. Title of article. Title of original source + rest of publishing information depending on type. Rpt. in Title of book. Ed. First name Last name. Vol. #. Place of publication: Publisher, Year. Pages. Print. Title of series if different from title of book followed by the series# if any. Griffin, Amy A. Jackson s The Lottery. The Explicator 58. 1 (1999): 44-45. Rpt. in Shirley Jackson. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall: Chelsea, 2001. 43-44. Print. Bloom s Major Short Story Writers.
Documentation You are required to use Parenthetical and/or In-Text documentation. In general, use just enough information to distinguish the work from others in your Works Cited. You may shorten titles if they are the first entry, but retain their formatting eg. in quotes or italicized. If two first entries are the same, add a comma, then other publication data such as a date or publication title to distinguish them. Documentation [Sample] Parenthetical: The works of O Connor remind us that there should be no segregation in literature, one should experience the writings of all races, all backgrounds. (Walker 27). In-text: Walker states that the works of O Connor remind her that there should be no segregation in literature, that one should experience the writings of all races, all backgrounds (27). Documenting sources with same first entry: If two sources have the same first entry (word at the beginning of the citation), as do the two articles authored by Jackson, include enough text to distinguish between them, for example (Jackson, On 152-3 ) (Jackson, Shirley 37) Works Cited You are required to submit a Works Cited document citing ALL sources used for your paper. Samples and hints are given below: Formatting: Double spaced, Times New Roman font, 12 point (sample is not) Alphabetical order by the first word in the citation. Indent every line except the first Hanging indent Leave out words such as publishers, house, books, press in publisher names, except for college or university presses. Notes on citing webpages: Look for publisher and date next to If there is no publisher or sponsor, use N.p. If there is no date of publication, use n.d. Omit any other information that is not available, usually author. If no pages are given, use N. pag. Works Cited [Sample] Eisinger, Chester E. Critical Views on Chares. Shirley Jackson. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall: Chelsea, 2001. 18. Print. Bloom s Major Short Story Writers. Excerpt from Fiction of the Forties. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1963. 288-289. Excerpt from a book. Jackson, Shirley. On the Morning of June 28, 1948, and The Lottery. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. New York: St. Martin s, 1983. 1192-95. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 151-153. Print. Reprint same title Jackson, Shirley. Shirley Jackson on the Controversy Surrounding the Story. Shirley Jackson. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall: Chelsea, 2001. 36-37. Print. Bloom s Major Short Story Writers. Rpt. of On the Morning of June 28, 1948, and The Lottery. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. New York: Bedford, 1991. 1458-1459. Larson, Susan T. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. Masterplots. Ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno. Vol. 5. Fourth Edition. Pasadena: Salem, 2011. 2330-2332. Print. Reprint different title SHS Library Website Citations http://www.spackenkillschools.org/shs/library/citations Click the Citation (pink box) on the rights side of any page in the SHS Library Website