Course Professor
- Dr. Laura Rice
- Office:
340 Moreland - Office Hours:
MWF 4:00-4:50 or by appointment - Contact:
Instructor's Website
Course Reserves
Required Texts
Popol Vuh. Trans. Dennis Tedlock. Touchstone, 1986
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories. Ed. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. NY: Oxford UP, 1997
Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak! Vintage, 1996.
Online short e-texts:
- Cortazor, "Axolotl"
- Fuentes "Chac Mool"
Edwidge Danticat
A good source for information about Edwidge Danticat is Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
Find Articles: Research Databases
If an article you need is not online in these databases, click on
to see if you can get it from another provider or in print. -
Academic Search Premier
Articles in scholarly journals and magazines. Limit to scholarly academic journals before or after you search and make sure you don't mistake a book review for an article.
Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
Finding Books
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog Request books not in Valley Library and have them sent here within 3-4 working days.
Quoting and Citing Sources: MLA Style
"The accuracy of quotations in research writing is extremely important. They must reproduce the original sources exactly. . . . You must construct a clear grammatically correct sentence that allows you to introduce or incorporate a quotation with complete accuracy" (Gibaldi 109).
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
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Click here for examples of parenthetical citations in short and long quotations.
For more information on quoting and citing sources, see
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online
- Online Writing Lab: OWL at Purdue
- Rutgers University Libraries: How to Avoid Plagiarism (video)
Citation Machine : an online bibliography maker that formats citations in MLA and other styles.
See Keeping Current with Research for information about search alerts, RSS feeds, bibliography manager, and more.
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