You are here: Home » Teens » Homework Help » English

Homework Help

English

Library Databases

Digital articles and information (many in full text) can be a big help for homework assignments!

Literature Resource Center (Thomson Gale) Help (PDF)
The LRC includes biographical information on writers and overviews of their works. It also includes full-text literary criticisms and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

NoveList Fiction Guide NoveList Fiction Guide Help (PDF)
NoveList is a fiction readers' guide to finding new authors and titles. It allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a starting point to locate other authors and titles of interest. They can also enter words that describe the contents of a book they would like to read, and NoveList retrieves titles that contain these words in the book's subject headings field. In addition, users can browse over 1,200 theme-oriented book lists, 160 award lists and 1,800 fiction related web-sites.

Twayne's Author Series (Thomson Gale) Twayne's Author Series Help (PDF)
Contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

Websites

Landmarks MLA Citations Machine
citationmachine.net

A Guide for Writing Research Papers
Introduction to MLA citation

Duke University's Guide to Citations
www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm

IPL Literary Criticism
www.ipl.org/div/litcrit

Common Errors in English
www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors

Shakespeare Criticism
shakespeare.palomar.edu/criticism.htm

Complete Works of Shakespeare
www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Shakespeare Resource Center
www.bardweb.net/globe.html

Electronic Shakespeare
www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/shakespeare/index.html

Shakespeare Mystery: Who, in fact, was he?
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare

The Internet Poetry Archive: Contemporary Poets
www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry
www.poets.org

Literary Criticism from Bookspot
www.bookspot.com/litcrit.htm

Voice of the Shuttle, Humanities Research
vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

Sparknotes, Literature Study Guides
www.sparknotes.com/lit/

Shmoop: Literary Analyses and U.S. History Explanations
www.shmoop.com/literature