Tutorial

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

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Welcome to EBSCO’s

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

tutorial. This comprehensive full-text database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of poets and short story authors and their works across literary themes, forms, techniques, and movements. Biographies, critical analyses, contextual essays, and explications of important works are also included. This tutorial will introduce you to key interface features as well as the product’s unique content.

Searching

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

is easy. Simply enter your search term(s) in the

Find

field, select the desired search parameter from the drop-down menu, and click the

Search

button.

From the Search Results page, you can refine your results by using the limiters in the left-hand column. Click on a

Full Text

link to read the complete article, or click the title to view details about the article. Don’t have time to read it now?

Sign In

to your personal account and click the

Add to Folder

icon to save the article to your personal folder.

On the Detailed Record screen, you can view all of the citation information for the article. Click the

Full Text

link to read the article. You can also

Print, E-mail, Save, Cite,

or

Export

an article by clicking the

Tools

icons on the right.

You can also browse by most studied poems and poets, short stories, poetic forms & techniques, critical analyses, themes, and more.

Let’s begin with

Most Studied Poems

by clicking the link in the

Browse

box on the home screen.

From the

Most Studied Poems

screen, you can conduct a keyword search, narrow your search by category using the tabs above the Find field, or browse results alphabetically or by relevance.

To browse the most studied poets in the database click

Most Studied Poets

in the

Browse

box on the home screen. From here you can conduct a keyword search, narrow your search by category using the tabs above the Find field, and/or browse results alphabetically or by relevance.

These are just two of the many

Browse

options available.

Audio and video recordings of poets reading their works, interviews, conversations, and podcasts from reputable sources like the

Academy of American Poets,

the

Poetry Foundation,

and

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

are also available. You can download and listen to MP3 files on your mobile device or stream video on your computer. Hover your pointer over

More

in the top toolbar and click

Video)

. When the search screen appears, enter your keywords in the

Find Audio

(or field and click the

Search

button.

Researchers will find a number of other helpful resources, such as a Literary Glossary, dictionaries, eBooks, and critical analyses of popular poems.

Poetry Off The Page

Lesson Plans and Assignments have been specifically crafted to assist teachers with classroom instruction. Simply click the

Learn More

button to access these supplemental guides, many of which align to NCTE and Common Core standards. You can search lesson plans by keyword, narrow your search by category using the tabs above the Find field, and/or browse results alphabetically or by relevance.

To view the complete online Help system, click the

Help

link at the top right of the

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

screen.