Research Methods
#1: The Student Resource Center - #2: The Twayne Authors Series - #3: Contemporary Novelists eBook
Method #1: Using the Student Resource Center for information about an author.
On the Student Resource Center home page, click on the Topic Trees link (circled above)
on the Search Types ribbon at the top of the screen.
Click on the Literature button (circled above).
Click on the Authors link (circled above).
Click on any author link from the list, for example, James Baldwin (circled above).
The Results screen is shown above.
On the first tab, you are presented with articles from reference books. Look especially at the right for Critical Essays.
The second tab has magazine articles, the third tab has articles from academic journals, the fourth tab includes newspaper articles.
The last tab includes multimedia files like photographs and video clips.
Click on any article link for the full text.
Other ways of using these directions...
After
choosing the Literature Topic Tree
button (step 2 above),
Choose
the Literary Works link to
research a book like Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Choose the Literary Topics, Genres, and Movements link to research literary movements like the Harlem Renaissance
Choose the Literary Topics, Genres, and Movements link to research literary movements like the Harlem Renaissance
Method #2: Using The Twayne Authors Series for information about an author.
Click on the NOVELNY banner on the Salesian High Library's Online Databases web pages as shown above.
Type in the NOVEL databases password if you are working from home.
Scroll down and find the link for The Twayne Authors Series. Click on the link.
Click on the link Authors A-Z.
Use the alphabet at the top of the page to choose an author from the alphabetical list, Sherwood Anderson (circled above) for example.
Click on links to read the different chapters of this book of literary criticism.
Use the menu at the left to jump to the Preface to the book, a Chronology of Anderson's life, a list of his Works,
a Bibliography, and directions for citing this research on your Works Cited page.
Click here to return to the top of this page.
Method #3: Using the Contemporary Novelists eBook for information about an author
On the Students page of the Salesian High web site, click the eBooks button at the bottom of the page.
First click the link circled above, type in the NOVEL database password if you're working from home,
and then use the browser Back button to return to this screen.
Click the Literature and the Arts link to jump to these eBooks.
Click on the Contemporary Novelists book cover.
Click on the eTable of Contents (circled above).
You can search for information using the yellow Search box at the upper left (circled above) or
you can expand the alphabetical list of authors (click the + symbol, changing it to a - symbol, as circled above)
and choose an author from the list.
The article you request will appear. Note that the databased jumped you to Page 574 of the eBook (circled above)
to get you information about Stephen King.
Directions for citing this information on your Works Cited page is at the bottom of this page.
Click here to return to the top of this page.
Click here to return to the Salesian High School Library's Research Guide page.