Hunt 1
MLA Library Hunt, Part 1, Due 6/23
Fill in the blanks with MLA-formatted works citations for critical books and articles likely to touch on the
following assigned poems. DO NOT just copy/paste what you find in the library's database; you must use
MLA format. You need only locate these critical sources; you do not have to check them out or print
them. You should, though, check out Expanded Academic and the Lit Resource Center's "email article"
feature, which saves time and paper.
Please model your entries on the interwoven sample answers—already done for you--below and on your
Internet and textbook examples. Do not rely on your tab key to create space below the entry's first line.
You must use a hanging indent. Here’s a guide:
http://web11.epnet.com.ezproxy.etsu.edu/support/tips/format/tip_hangindent.htm
Do not overcomplicate this task; it's really just mimicry, anal mimicry. Use the columns to keep track of
which electronic resource led you to that book or article. Please do not re-do the sample entries; they have
been done for you. Follow the library's instructions; you are not Googling.
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While you can search for "full text" and “peer-reviewed” listings only, not all Expanded Academic
(Infotrac) listings include full text; some just feature a summary and/or a citation—but a nearby
library may subscribe to that journal.
Do not overcomplicate this task; it's really just mimicry, anal mimicry. Use the columns to keep
track of which electronic resource led you to that book or article.
Do a “subject” search if “keyword” generates too many hits. Warning--Follow the library's
instructions; you are not Googling. In the Literature Resource Center, it might help to first locate
the author & then use the “Literary Criticism . . .” tab to find relevant--peer reviewed--articles.
Searching for criticism that may contain your “primary” work’s title in its title (e.g., “We Real
Cool”) is always an option too.
Learn how to create a “hanging indent” by consulting your Word help or using the link in the
Web version of this task.
Please do NOT use Microsoft Works, Word Perfect, or .wpd, ever. Thanks. Try http://www.openoffice.org
(for Writer) or http://abiword.com for Word compatible programs, or use Google docs. Whichever you
use, save the document as .doc (Word document) or .rtf (rich text format). FILL IN EACH TABLE’S BLANK
CELLS; YOU SHOULD DOUBLE LINE-SPACE.
Note--Since you have opened this file with Microsoft Word or a compatible program, go to file>save as
and make it your own document. Make a back-up by emailing yourself a copy as an attachment; save
another copy on your flashdrive.
Research Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”
Book
Melhem, DH. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry & the Heroic Voice. Lexington: U of Kentucky P,
1987.
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
Literature
Resource
Center
Hunt 2
Research Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Book
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
Guruswamy, Rosemary Fithian. “Queer Theory and Publication Anxiety.” Early American
Literature 34.1 (Winter 1999 ): 103. Expanded Academic Index. Web. 15 Jan. 2004.
Literature
Resource
Center
Research Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”
Book
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
A Web
Site
Hale, Steven. “Marvell’s Use of Sound in ‘To His Coy Mistress.’” Luminarium. Web. 15
January 2009.
Research Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”
Book
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
Literature
Resource
Center
Fong, Bobby. “Roethke’s ‘My Papa’s Waltz.’” College Literature 17.1 (1990): 79-82.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Aug 2004.
Locate two Infotrac articles that could help you analyze Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
Expanded
Academic
(Infotrac)
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hit cancel to try the interactive exercises.)
--Your book’s companion site at bedfordstmartins.com also links to great research and documentation resources.