1. LIFE & WORKS A Research Paper
English 9
February 2013

2. WHAT ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT?
1) The biography section should include significant events in the author’s life. You can find this information in the reference and biography sections in the library and in online periodicals and scholarly journals.
2) The summary of the book section must focus on telling the story of your novel. You will not be able to tell everything, and you will need to choose two pieces of information that help you explain your summary. This evidence can only be found in the novel, but you can use other sources to help give you ideas.
3) The connections section of the paper should include one piece of evidence from the author’s life and one from the novel. It should show that events or experiences in the author’s life influenced something in the novel. You must use evidence from the novel and you must use evidence from any one of the other sources.

3. Who wrote this book? What is it about?

4. Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird Harper was “an unruly tomboy.”
Harper was raised in Monroeville, AL
Harper’s father was a lawyer.
Harper was very familiar with the Scottsboro Trial.
Harper had 2 childhood friends: Truman Capote and his cousin.
Harper grew up in the midst of a racism.
Harper Lee had a reclusive neighbor.
Scout
Boo Radley
Maycomb, AL.
Mr. Ewell
Atticus Finch
The trial of Tom Robinson
Dill and Jem
Thank you to Ms. Caston-Smith for this graphic!

5. Source Options
The Novel
Print Source
Online Source

6. The Novel
You have it!

7. Print source Print Source Remember the word “Sidelights.”
Use one of these reference books. Find the volume you need in Destiny.

9. Online Source

11. USE THIS DATABASE.

12. CHECK THIS BOX.

13. CHOOSE AN ARTICLE.

14. EMAIL OR PRINT THE ARTICLE.

15. READ THE ARTICLE AND PICK OUT WHAT YOU CAN USE IN YOUR PAPER.
“Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer in that town, served as her model for the character of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.”

16. HOW TO CITE YOUR ONLINE SOURCE
CITE THE ARTICLE.
SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE AVL ARTICLE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WORDS “SOURCE CITATION.”
HOW TO CITE YOUR
ONLINE SOURCE
Source Citation   (MLA 7th Edition)
"(Nelle) Harper Lee." Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select. Detroit:
Gale, 2008. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 31 Jan

17. Using a different source?
Use the MLA Handbook, 7h ed.
Multiple copies are available at the circulation desk!
Quick online guides…
Purdue Univeristy
Easybib --

18. The library staff is here for you!
Mr. Middlebrooks
Ms. Utz
Ms. Wren