OWHL RESOURCE GUIDE for English 200
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret
Atwood
| Teacher: Ms.
Benson Librarian: Ms. Tully Term/Year: Spring, '07 |
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| Take steps to protect yourself against plagiarism.
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| Plan your time wisely. Research is a process with many intermediate deadlines. | |
Understand the assignment. |
Option One: The
Research Paper |
| The number of sources required varies according to the option chosen. | Reference
Books Circulating Books Periodicals Electronic Resources |
Make a source card the first time you use a source. Take notes carefully. Make sure that you understand summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting. Record your source code on each note card. |
| To Find Reference Books |
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The Garver Room is arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System. It's logical and easy to browse. Use these indexes to find information about Margaret Atwood and about The Handmaid's Tale.
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TIP: Regardless of which option you choose, you will need to read an overview of your topic in order to focus and narrow it. TIP: Use reference books to gather a working vocabulary for further searching. |
| TO FIND CIRCULATING BOOKS: | TIP: Plan ahead as books that are requested from other libraries can take several days to arrive and books from outside of our consortium can take more than a week. |
| USING THE owh and noble
LIBRARY CATALOGs |
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| Try these Selected Keywords |
Try these Subject Headings |
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Moral
Majority |
Nineteen
eighties |
| TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER RESOURCES USING ELECTRONIC DATABASES |
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IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR:
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| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION |
BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER |
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| LITERARY CRITICISM | CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM SELECT | LITERATURE ONLINE | |||
| GENERAL PERIODICALS | GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER GOLD | MASTERFILE PREMIER | e-LIBRARY | ||
| OVERVIEWS / COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION | LITERATURE ONLINE | MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA | COMPLETE A TO Z LIST OF OWHL DATABASES | |
| SCHOLARLY JOURNALS |
ACADEMIC ONEFILE | EXPANDED ACADEMIC PLUS | PROJECT MUSE | JSTOR | |
| NEWS | NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVE | NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT | NEWSPAPER SOURCE | ||
| NEWS/OPINION | CQ RESEARCHER | OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS | |||
| ELECTRONIC BOOKS | NET LIBRARY | Cambridge Companions Online | |||
| SOURCES
ON THE FREE WEB |
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Northwest Passages: Canadian Literature Online | The Margaret Atwood Reference Site |
Now that you’ve found your resource material, follow these steps to get the most out it.
| Project Requirements and Due Dates | Tips and Tools | |
Revised proposals and working thesis |
May 2 | How to develop driving questions and create a thesis |
Working outline |
May 9 | How to write an outline |
| Works cited |
May 22 | TIP: You might find it helpful to use RefWorks to generate your bibliography. |
| To cite Print Sources | ||
| To cite Electronic sources | ||
| May 23 |
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Presentation |
Assessment Day | |
Are you satisfied with your efforts and outcome? If not, be sure to review this process thoroughly before your next assignment. Make an appointment with an Instructional Librarian as soon as you receive your assignment to make sure that you get off on the right track next time.
