LibGuides: English Subject Guide: ENG. 12: Creative Nonfiction

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Learning Goals

You've had some practice conducting research, so this class is a skills review using some different databases than you may have used for past research. Here's what we'll review:

practice your searches in a variety of databases
download or email results to yourself
determine which databases are best for finding the kinds of information you need

Maureen and Sue are here to help if you have questions.

Research Databases

Book Reviews

Gale Books & Authors
Search by author or title to find professional reviews of various books. Here's an example of how to find the reviews of Cheryl Strayed's book, Wild.

NoveList Plus (EbscoHost) This link opens in a new window
A wonderful source of book reviews and author information for avid readers! Use this database to find out the sequence of titles published by an author, read reviews of an author's fiction or nonfiction works, and locate other authors with similar writing styles or plot elements.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Create your yearlong pass to the full text of the NY Times. You can find journalists' interviews with, and criticism of the works of Strayed and Krakauer.

Biographical Information

Gale Literature Resource Center (requires a MultCoLibrary card)
A useful source of high quality biographical information on authors. There are solid biographies available for both Cheryl Strayed and Jon Krakauer. See the screenshot below to learn how to find the bios quickly.

Gale in Context: Biography (Requires a MultCoLibrary card)
A good source of quality biographies for both authors you're studying.

Literary Criticism

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This is your first stop for most literary research. JSTOR contains full-text articles from hundreds of journals in literature, the arts, history, political science, and more.
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) This link opens in a new window
Contains some literary criticism, but can be a worthwhile option when researching popular authors, especially when there have been film adaptations of their works.
Semantic Scholar This link opens in a new window
This newer database offers thousands of journal articles. There's no login or password required. Contains lots of results for Into the Wild, and fewer for Cheryl Strayed's novel, Wild. Worth a look.

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