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George C. Gordon Library

HU 3900: Inquiry Seminar

S. Nikitina

Emerging and Experimental Fiction

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WPI Only Access resources with proxy.

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Contents

QuickFIND - Multi-database Search for Articles & Books

Google Scholar users? Be sure to set up proxy. Also, check library resources, web search engines don't index the "deep web."

Search Tips

Brainstorm all possible terms and phrases.

("text message" OR "text messaging" OR "instant message" OR "instant messaging" OR "SMS") AND (fiction OR prose OR novel)

"kinetic poetry" OR "visual poetry" OR "multimedia poetry" OR "concrete poetry" (substitute Poetry for Poem OR Poems)

"hypertext fiction" OR "hypermedia novel" OR "experimental literature"

QuickFIND multi-database search

Fun example: Paperwounds

Start with QuickFIND multi-database search to retrieve results from 11 databases (including the library catalog & Worldcat for books) on your topic with one search. There are 3 ways to search:

  1. Library homepage,
  2. Databases by Subject (Literature),
  3. Advanced.

Find Articles: Literature Databases

Find Books

  • Search the Library Catalog for items @ WPI
  • WorldCat to search beyond our library
  • JSTOR, QuickFind, and other article databases are good places to find book reviews, criticism, technnology manuals, and theoretical works.

Subject headings:

  • Fiction Authorship Data processing.
  • Experimental fiction History and criticism Theory, etc.
  • Authors and readers Data processing.
  • Fiction Technique Data processing.
  • Creative writing Data processing.
  • Storytelling Data processing.
  • Literature and technology.
  • Hypertext systems.
  • Video tapes Editing.
  • Motion pictures Editing.
  • Digital video.
  • Interactive multimedia.
  • Computer Prose
  • Fiction Authorship.
  • Motion picture authorship.
  • Playwriting.
  • Poetry Authorship.

The library also has books on How-to use tools, such as Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint, Camtasia studio 4 [electronic resource] : the definitive guide, and Flash 8 Cookbook.


Digital fictions : storytelling in a material world

Give Credit! Cite Your Sources

Go Fish, Glow Fish, Write It, Cite It
MLA: Write It, Cite It (PPT) | Citing in the Disciplines

Using MS Word 2007 to Create a Bibliography | RefWorks | EndNote Web

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