ERH 203: Ways of Reading, Lt. Col. Hodde

Articles provide information on very specific, narrow topics. The Library purchases article databases so you may access articles for your topic – for free. Researchers use them when they need:

• Magazines and Newspapers: Brief coverage of contemporary events written to all levels of readers.
• Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Journals: Reports of research or scholarship on specific topics written by scholars to other scholars
  • What does peer-review mean?
    • The review of commercial, professional, or academic efficiency, competence, etc., by others in the same occupation -Oxford English Dictionary

Use the author's name, the name of the short story, and limit the date of publication (of the review to the year before and after the original date of publication. Example: John Cheever swimmer, and use the date limiter to limit to 1962 through 1964. This way, you'll get the first story reviews.

You may need to add the name of the magazine or book the short story appeared in:

Cheever, John. “The Swimmer.” The New Yorker, July 18, 1964, pp. 31–36.

Note: Sort Story available from the publisher: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/18/the-swimmer 

Cheever, John. The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. [1st ed.], Harper & Row, 1964. 

Note: Preston Library owns this book: https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=1b16ea86-54b2-3d29-90cd-fc064e7e84d7

To find articles about the authors, type the author's name and criticism. Example: Shirley Jackson criticism. Use the index of those books to see if there is criticism of the title, but remember, overall criticism of an author's approach is applicable.

You can find book reviews and news articles about the author and his book by searching the databases listed below: