Miscellaneous Research Information

Looking up articles in Galileo. In the best possible worlds, one could click on links like this one:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=maco12153&tabID=T001&searchId=R4&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=8&contentSet=GALE%7CH1420014438&&docId=GALE|H1420014438&docType=GALE&role=LitRC

But since there is no guarantee, it's best to know how to look up an article.

From the MSC home page, go to LIBRARY

Go to Find an Article (Galileo)

Click on "Browse by"

Select and click on "Literature, Language, & Literary Criticism"

Select and click on the sub-category Litearture & Literary Criticism"

Go to "Literature Resource Center"

In the seach box type: The Things They Carried (short story)

below the search box, click on "Name of Work"

scroll down and click OFF: Biographies, Multimedia, and Reviews and Notes

scroll back to the top search box and beside it click on SEARCH

This should take you to THE PAGE with many, many references to criticism on the story.

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Always check to see if the citation is given for an article from Galileo; it could save you time. Just remember to double space and use a hanging indent for the Works Cited page.

Example:

Blyn, Robin. "O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Explicator 61.3 (Spring 

     2003): 189. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffery W.

     Hunter. Vol 211. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center. Web.

     16 Oct. 2012.

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In the event that you have a quotation that runs OVER 4 typed lines, from either the story or the critic, use a signal phrase, followed by a colon, then the block quote.

Example: 

The reader can sympathize with the narrator who, in turn, tells the story of Jimmy Cross, who, like many

adults, comes to realize he must make a personal sacrifice for a greater good:

                  . . . Lieutenant Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead. He

                 would dispense with love; it was not now a factor. And if anyone quarreled or complained, he

                 would simply tighten his lips and arrange his shoulders in the correct commant posture. He might

                 give a curt little nod. Or he might not. He might just shrug and say Carry on, then they would

                 saddle up and form into a column and move out toward the villages of Than Khe ( O'Brien

                 1049).