MyLiteratureLab

MyLiteratureLab is designed to help you read, interpret, and write about literature. The resources and tools in this section of the site focus on the literary elements. Choose "Diagnostics" to assess your knowledge of the elements. For definitions you don't know, you will be referred to the appropriate section of the "Glossary of Literary Terms." To further your understanding of the elements, click on "Interactive Readings," literary selections that include hyperlinks to questions that model close reading.

Other areas of MyLiteratureLab may be more suitable to your needs. For example, "Longman Lectures" offers insights into the process of reading, interpreting, and writing about literature. And "Writing and Research" offers useful advice and tools that will guide you, step-by-step, through the process of writing a critical essay.

	Diagnostics Two diagnostic tests of 20 questions each measure your knowledge of literary elements and critical terms. After taking one of the tests, visit the Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms to learn about terms you are unsure of or do not know.
	Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms The Glossary provides definitions and explanations of key literary and critical terms to help you appreciate, interpret, and write about literature.
	Interactive Readings Organized by literary element, the Interactive Readings include a collection of short stories, poems, and scenes from plays that show you how to apply the literary elements. Click on the highlighted text within each selection to study the elements and answer questions about using the elements.

Experience how listening to literature being read can bring it to life! Listen to these richly illustrated concise ten-minute audio “lectures” narrated by Longman’s textbook authors to help you connect with authors and works. Each lecture is divided into three segments, and each segment concludes with Questions for Thinking and Writing to help you analyze and reflect on what you have heard.

James Baldwin	Sonny's Blues
Toni Cade Bambara	The Lesson
Elizabeth Bishop	One Art
Gwendolyn Brooks	The Mother
Lewis Carroll	Jabberwocky
Raymond Carver	Cathedral
Kate Chopin	Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin	The Storm
Kate Chopin	The Story of an Hour
Billy Collins	The Names
Robert Frost	Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost	Mending Wall
Robert Frost	The Pasture
Gish Jen	In the American Society
Lorraine Hansberry	A Raisin in the Sun
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Young Goodman Brown
Seamus Heaney	Digging
Langston Hughes	The Weary Blues
Zora Neale Hurston	Sweat
Henrik Ibsen	A Doll's House
James Joyce	Araby
John Keats	Bright star!
Bobbie Ann Mason	Shiloh
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Love Is Not All
Joyce Carol Oates	Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Tim O'Brien	The Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor	A Good Man is Hard to Find
Wilfred Owen	Dulce et Decorum Est
Sylvia Plath	Lady Lazarus
Edgar Allan Poe	Ligeia
Edward Arlington Robinson	Richard Cory
Mary Jo Salter	Welcome to Hiroshima
William Shakespeare	Hamlet
William Shakespeare	Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare	The Theme of Love in Sonnets
William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night 's Dream
Sophocles	Oedipus the King
Alice Walker	Everyday Use
Eudora Welty	Why I Live at the P.O.
William Butler Yeats	The Lake Isle of Innisfree




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Writing and Research


Welcome to Longman's comprehensive Writing and Research resource. Just click on the left-hand list to visit any of the resources included in this site. Here you will find:

	From Idea to Writing From Idea to Writing facilitates effective writing by providing useful information on both the writing process and writing about literature, including such key topics as invention, planning, strategies for organizing, drafting, and revising.
	Writing the Research Paper Writing the Research Paper offers comprehensive instruction for writing research papers in any class including finding a topic, evaluating sources, taking notes, tips for summarizing, developing a thesis, suggestions for organizing the paper, choosing a pattern of development, guidance for writing introductions and conclusions, and comprehensive MLA documentation.
	Student Papers Get a head start on your writing by reviewing model student papers. The student papers provide helpful models of a variety of critical essays and the research paper.
	Literature Timelines The Literature Timeline offers a chronological overview of major literary works and historical events, from the Pre-historic migration to the Americas, to the inception of the Internet. Also in this section, the American Literary History Chart and the British Literary History Chart highlight the major characteristic, writers and works in each era.
	MLA Documentation Comprehensive coverage of MLA Documentation provides numerous models for citing a range of sources, from interviews to periodicals to electronic sources.
	Avoiding Plagiarism Avoiding Plagiarism is a set of interactive tutorials and exercises that show you how to use and document sources responsibly in both MLA and APA styles.
	Research Navigator Research Navigator helps you make the most efficient use of your research time by offering extensive help with the research process as well as four rich databases of credible, reliable source material. Research Navigator also contains a researched and maintained Link Library of Literature.
	Exchange Exchange is Pearson's online peer and instructor writing review program. Instructors can comment on student papers at the word, sentence, or paper level, save, often-used comments, and grade student papers online. Students can review each other's work in peer review groups.
	Tutor Center The Tutor Center provides help reviewing papers for organization, flow, argument, and consistent grammar errors.