ENGLISH 121 - LIBRARY RESOURCES
Reading/Writing/Text


Find books
Search strategies to find books on the themes and topics of this course..

Reference sources
Print and online tools for help with terminology, definitions, overviews and analysis.

Find articles
Electronic resources that give references to articles in serials and chapters in books. Some articles may be full-text.

Internet resources
Internet sites selected by the Subject Librarian.

Resources for analysing and critiquing course material

Evaluating websites - what to look for.

Academic and popular journals - what's the difference? Learn how can you tell.

How to read academic articles - points to note for both reading and writing.

Interpreting references - is it a journal article, book, or book chapter?

Understanding Your Reading List- an online guide to how books, book chapter, and journal article citations can be identified.

Referencing - know how to reference your own work, and why. Referen©ite is a quick online guide to using the referencing styles used by the University.

Linda George
Subject Librarian:
English Literature

Arts Information Services
Level 1, General Library
University of Auckland
5 Princes Street, Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142
New Zealand 
Phone: 64 - 9 - 3737599 ext. 87347

l.george@auckland.ac.nz

 

Find Books Top of page  

Use the The Catalogue to find books on the topics discussed in your course, e.g.academic writing analysis, multiliteracy, close reading, korean diaspora, fairy tales. You can also use names as a search, e.g. barack obama, martin luther king, malcolm x, stanley fish. Enclose phrases and names in " " for more effective search results.

From the results screen, use the options shown in the left hand side bar to refine your results.

Reference Books Top of page

Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics : the basics. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Childs, Peter, and Roger Fowler, eds. Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London: Routledge, 2006.

Harmon, William. Handbook to literature. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society. London : Fontana Paperbacks, 1983.

Online Reference Top of page

Blackwell Reference Online - a searchable online collection of reference books. Individual titles of relevance to this course:

Oxford Reference Online -an online collection of reference books. Both the English Language Reference and Literature collections contain titles useful for this course.

Oxford English Dictionary - the definitive record of the English language, with monthly updates of new words and many other features.

Find Articles Top of page
Contact the subject librarian if you need help with database searching.

This database contains articles in magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals on the topics covered in this course. It also includes international publications.

ANZ Reference Centre - full text articles. Results can be narrowed by Australian/New Zealand newspapers and magazines, and by international newspapers and magazines.

Search Tip: You can also use the Articles & More link in Library Search. To ensure the articles meet academic requirements, click Peer-Reviewed Journals in the left hand panel of the results screen.

Internet Resources Top of page
You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.

The Media and Communications Studies - from University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Rhetoric and Composition - from Carnegie Mellon University

Rhetoric and Composition Materials - models of rhetoric, writing processes and argumentation
Contact: l.george@auckland.ac.nz
File Last updated: 2 March, 2011