Library Research Assignment 1

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Library Research Assignment ENC 1102 Please complete the library research project below utilizing the HCC library webpage, databases, and course LibGuide; applicable pages of your text books; the Internet; class lectures; and other materials as appropriate. All MLA formatting and guidelines apply, and this assignment must be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment. Please provide citations for all entries. The completed project is worth a total of 100 points. 1. Have you had any formal library instruction, prior to this course? If so, when did you have this instruction? Yes in English Composition 1 in the Brandon Campus we had the librarian give us instruction for two of our classes. 2. Locate and cite one single-author book on the subject of networking. "Networking." Personal Effectiveness and Development , Chartered Management Institute, 2005. Chartered Management Institute: Checklists. Gale Academic OneFile , link.gale.com/apps/doc/A141751129/AONE?u=lincclin_hcc&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=93db9b08. Accessed 11 Feb. 2024. 3. Accessing the Library Databases, use the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to locate a definition for “ hypocrite ” ; cut and paste one entry, and provide a citation. Hypocrite: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to have feelings or beliefs of a higher order than his or her real ones; hence generally, a dissembler, pretender. Citation: “Hypocrite, N., Sense 1.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, December 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/6979173671. 4. Use the “ Biography In Context ” database to locate a biography on Willa Cather. "Willa Cather." Gay & Lesbian Biography , edited by Michael J. Tyrkus and Michael Bronski, St. James Press, 1997. Gale In Context: Biography , link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1634000066/BIC?u=lincclin_hcc&sid=bookmark- BIC&xid=d630fbb4. Accessed 11 Feb. 2024.

5. Using the HCC library databases, locate a critical article addressing the works of Guy de Maupassant and provide a citation. Hadlock, Philip G. "The light continent: on melancholia and masculinity in Maupassant's 'Lui?' and 'Une famille'." Style, vol. 35, no. 1, spring 2001, pp. 79+. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A97074172/BIC?u=lincclin_hcc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=36ce5107. Accessed 11 Feb. 2024. 6. Fill in the blanks from the paragraph, excerpted from the “ Comparing Scholarly versus Popular Articles ” source on one of the HCC campus library pages: In general, ______Scholarly______articles are viewed as having more ______authority____. Articles from the popular press are viewed as having ___no credibility________. This is why faculty often request students find "scholarly or academic journal", not "popular magazine" articles for their research sources. 7. Using the HCC library databases, locate an article addressing any literary aspect of Jessie Fauset ’ s novel Plum Bun . "Plum Bun." Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition, Jan. 2000, pp. 1-4. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=lkh&AN=103331AMF13840011000384&site=lrc-plus. 8. Using the HCC library databases, locate a critical article by Arnold Rampersad addressing the works of Langston Hughes. Rampersad, Arnold, and St. Clair Bourne. “Arnold Rampersad on Langston Hughes.” The Langston Hughes Review , vol. 15, no. 2, 1997, pp. 4–29. 9. Search the World Wide Web (WWW) to locate the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. Cite any film or collection from the site. Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works . United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96522217/>.

10. Locate and list five bibliographic entries for scholarly sources that could be used to support a Critical Analysis or Comparison/Contrast essay addressing the work/works of one of the following literary figures: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Nella Larson, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Ellison, or Jean Toomer; be sure to use MLA format. 11. Locate and cite a periodical article from a scholarly source that critically analyzes any work by Toni Morrison. 12. Provide a citation for a book with more than one author. 13. Provide a citation for an anthology of American Literature with an editor. 14. Using either an online or hardcopy source, locate and excerpt five lines from Edgar Alan Poe ’ s “ The Raven ” and provide a citation.

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