Finding Literary Criticism (Ybor City): Start Searching!

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"Search Terms" are keywords and phrases (not a whole sentence) that describe your topic. The examples below are of some different ways you can use search terms to find sources:

• "war of the worlds" wells
  • Title in "quotation marks" followed by author's last name.
    • Enclosing words that go together in quotation marks helps with phrase searching.
• "war of the worlds" and wells and imperial*
  • Title of the work plus author's last name and topic keyword
    • The keyword truncated by the asterisk* picks up all forms of the word (imperialist, imperialism).
• "british imperialism"
  • Topical keywords only.
  • Picks up material about the topic in general, not necessarily connected with a particular author or literary work.
• wells, h.g.
  • Author's last name followed by a comma, and first name.
  • Lastname, Firstname search picks up material about the author's life and works in general.

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