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This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in English Literature.
Last Updated: May 15, 2013 URL: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/english Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

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    Tips & Tricks

    What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

    What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

    Beware Wikipedia!
    It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

    Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
    Be critical about everything you read

    Avoid Plaigiarism
    Don't use an author's work or ideas without referencing them (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

     

    Books of Interest

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    Starting an English literature degree - Andrew Green
    ISBN: 0230211836
    'This unusual, detailed & thought-provoking book will help students of English Literature come to grips with their studies & take a share of responsibility for their own learning. It thus has the potential to make a major impact on the way English is studied.' Professor Knights1. Initial bearings 2. Teaching and learning at university 3. Independent study 4. Seminars and workshops 5. Lectures 6. Reading 7. Writing 8. Using ICT 9. Final thoughts

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    Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty - Patricia Pender
    ISBN: 9780230362246
    An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

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    Explaining Creativity - R. Keith Sawyer
    ISBN: 9780199737574
    Considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary... moves beyond the individual to consider the social and cultural contexts of creativity, including the role of collaboration in creative process.

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    The Routledge Concise History of World Literature - D'Haen
    ISBN: 9780415495899
    An introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D’haen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures...

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    A short guide to writing about history - Marius & Page
    ISBN: 0205673708
    An ideal accessory in any history course that requires writing, A Short Guide to Writing About History stresses thinking and writing like a historian. This engaging and practical little text helps the readers get beyond merely compiling dates and facts; it teaches them how to incorporate their own ideas into their papers and to tell a story about history that interests them and their peers.

     

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