English Composition II - ENGL 112 Resource Guide: Welcome

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Provides information on print and electronic books (e-books) available in our library.

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Provides information on Chopin's short stories, including Story of an Hour.

Provides information on Faulkner's short stories, including A Rose for Emily.

Provides information on Hemingway's short stories, including Hills Like White Elephants.

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Provides information on Glaspell's plays, including Trifles (Jury of her Peers)

Provides information on Ibsen's plays, including A Doll's House.

Provides information on Sophocles and Oedipus Rex.

Provides information on Wilson and Fences.

Provides information on Arthur Miller's plays, including Death of a Salesman.

Includes help on writing composition and creating an annotated bibliography.

A literary analysis is a writer's argument for how an aspect of a work of literature should be interpreted. Such an analysis focuses on a specific attribute of a work rather than on the work as a whole. For example, a literary analysis may analyze the theme of a short story or a novel or the symbolism within it. When writing a literary analysis, writers must back up their assertions with the work itself and with secondary sources. Writers can analyze nearly any type of literature including short stories, novels, and poems. Some even analyze films.

The research process can be broken down into five broad steps. This will help you with your research.

There are numerous Research Starter articles related to this topic. Several themes are linked in this reference article.