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Research Tips for Literature

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Page 1: Research Tips for Literature

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how to do literary

research

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search strategies

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Hyour author’s name

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

Shakespeare

Chaucer

Austen

Wharton

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HELLOMY NAME IS

HemansKeats

Shelley, Mary

Shelley, PercyBysshe

Yeats

Wells

Wells, H.G.

Wells, Herbert George

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pseudonyms & pen names

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Mark Twain =

Samuel Clemens

Currer Bell=

CharlotteBronte

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your text’s title#2

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novel

short story

play

essay

poem

anthology of poems

etc.

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your topic or idea#3

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symbols

genre

theorytechnique

country

historical period

literary period

character

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author AND topic

text AND (topic OR topic)

author AND text

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good for phrases & titles

“Lake District”

“narrative theory”

“Age of Innocence”

“The Beggar’s Opera”

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#2 good for word variations

poet*poet,

poets, poetry,

poetics, poetical…

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good for spelling variations

wom?n behavio?r

womenbehaviour

womanbehavior

womyn

#3

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