Research Guide for Undergraduate Students English and American Literature

Summary: For nearly twenty-five years A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students has helped students avoid the pitfalls of conducting library research for term papers and theses. Fully updated and revised, the sixth edition shows undergraduates how to use their research time efficiently and advises them how to locate and evaluate material available from electronic databases and the Internet. Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling, ...librarians for over thirty years, bring their experience to a clear and concise tour of the typical college library and provide easy-to-understand summaries of the print and electronic research tools available to students. Along the way, they describe nearly fifty reference works and research aids, including: Literature Resource Center Expanded Academic ASAP Literature Online (LION) Library of Congress Subject Headings MLA International Bibliography Oxford English Dictionary ProQuest Research Library The Research Guide reprints dozens of samples from these reference materials. Separate chapters discuss navigating a library's electronic catalog, searching for articles and books, identifying and using primary sources, and locating biographic information, quotations, and miscellaneous facts. A new chapter discusses bibliographic citation managers, such as EndNote. [read more]