Critical Analysis Research Paper

Using the Digital Library

Accessing the Library

• Find an icon on the desktop that says University Senior High. If you encounter a choice of three links, click on the third link, “Los Angeles Unified School District.”

OR• Google search LAUSD Destiny and click on the result that looks like this: https://lausd.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?context=lausd

THEN

• Find our University Senior High on the list of schools

• From the Home Tab Click Digital Library

HOME PAGE

Which databases will you use?

You have three choices for this project when using the Digital Library:

1.Select EBSCO Publishing, and then locate Literary Reference Center Plus.

2.Select Facts on File from the Digital Library. Under Literature and Language Arts, select Bloom’s Literature.

3.Select Gale Database and select Artemis Literary Sources.

You will see these links as you select each of the three

databases.

From EBSCO

From Facts on File

From Gale

Getting a vetted source

•By definition, databases are a vetted source.

•You often can choose Peer Reviewed Articles Only when doing an advanced search on a database. That means that scholars have reviewed the article and deemed it a “scholarly” work.

Limit your Bloom’s search by choosing Analysis and Criticism

and Full Text.

You can limit your searchto analysis on Bloom’s.

Limit to Full Text

Add a term here

Exclude a term here

Limit Your Results Further

Searching for literary criticism in databases