Literature Reference Center Plus
1. Open the database.
2. Type in the Title of your work--in quotes. Then add the author's last name. Search.
- "two kinds" tan
3. Limit the search to special types of articles.
- Click Source type (under the search box). Try one of these.
- Literary criticism (the most important type)
- Biographies
- Interviews
- Reviews (this can help you know what people in the 1970s thought at the time)
4. Review the results.
- Read the Title. If it seems relevant . . .
- Click the Title. Scroll down to the Abstract.
- If it seems relevant, click Access Options ( you may need to scroll up) for full text. Or you could just email everything to yourself for later.
5. Scan the full text for a key word or phrase.
This tells you what parts of the text are most relevant.
- Open the full text (from the Access Options button).
- Ctrl+F Hold down the Ctrl key, then the F key.
- A box pops up. Enter a word or phrase. Search.
- Any instances of your search term(s) will be highlighted. Click the arrow to jump to the next one.
6. Email the full text to yourself. (You won't regret this.)
- Click the curved arrow icon. (top right).
- Click Email.
- Enter your email address. Send.
- You will get all forms of the full text in an email attachment.
- You can return to the online record to get the citation.
- Scroll down the email.
- Click the Permalink. (see below)
7. Get an MLA citation...
- Click the "quotes" icon (top right)
- .From the pulldown menu, select MLA 9th edition
- The citation appears.
- Click Copy to clipboard.
- Paste into your Works Cited list.