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IMPORTANT: MLA recently updated its style guide. Many websites and manuals have not yet had a chance to update their MLA information. Check with your instructor to confirm which version of MLA you will be required to use. Lakeland Library has the newest edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue has created a webpage detailing some of the changes to the citation style; it can be found at MLA Update 2009: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/.

CREATIVE WRITING

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Books

The Art of Writing Drama
The Crafty Art of Playmaking
Creative Writing: A Guide and Glossary to Fiction Writing
Creative Writing, Lakeland Catalog Subject Search
Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know about Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing: Improve Your Craft with the Core Essentials Taught to MFA Students
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
The Soul of Screenwriting
Understanding Screenwriting
Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

Databases

Off-Campus Access: Link to Off-Campus Access
For help accessing databases from off-campus, please see our handout Off-Campus Access.

Using the phrase creative writing, perform a Subject Heading or Keyword search in any of the following databases.

Academic Search Complete
Literary Reference Center
NetLibrary (E-books), Creative Writing Subject Search
MLA International Bibliography

Websites

Academy of American Poets
   (www.poets.org)
Arts & Letters Daily
   (www.aldaily.com)
LitLine
   (www.litline.org/links)
New Pages
   (http://newpages.com)
Ohio Arts Council
   (www.oac.state.oh.us)
Ohio Center for the Book
   (www.ohiocenterforthebook.org)
Pen American Center
   (www.pen.org/)
Poetry Foundation
   (www.poetryfoundation.org/)
Poetry Society of America
   (www.poetrysociety.org/index.html)
Poets & Writers Online
   (www.pw.org)
Web del Sol
   (http://webdelsol.com)
Wired for Books
   (http://wiredforbooks.org/)
The Writer's Chronicle
   (http://awpwriter.org/magazine/index.htm)
Writer's Digest
   (http://writersdigest.com/GeneralMenu)

LITERARY CRITICISM

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Books

The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship
A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms [electronic resource]
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Criticism, Lakeland Catalog Subject Search
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
An Introduction to Literary Criticism
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
The Oxford Companion to English Literature [electronic resource]
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature [electronic resource]
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Understanding Contemporary Literary Theory

Databases

OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS: Link to Off-Campus Access
For help accessing databases from off-campus, please see our handout Off-Campus Access.

Academic Search Complete
Electronic Journal Center
Literary Reference Center
NetLibrary (E-books), Literary Criticism Subject Search
MLA International Bibliography

Websites

Gale Literary Index
   (www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex)
The Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
   (www.ipl.org/div/litcrit)
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
   (www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm)
LiteraryHistory.com: Indexing the Internet
   (www.literaryhistory.com)
Literary Resources on the Net
   (http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit)
Modern American Poetry
   (www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm)
Reviews of Books
   (www.reviewsofbooks.com)

TECHNICAL WRITING