Full-text articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers from almost every area of academic study.
Access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education.
JSTOR I through XV provides access to full-text journal articles spanning 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
This video demonstrates the requirements for the APA page setup, title page, running headers, and other formatting guidelines.
Category |
Genres in children's and young adult literature |
|
Picture Books |
Interdependence of art and text. Story of Concept presented through combination of text and illustration. Classification based on format, not genre. All genres appear in picture books. |
|
Poetry & Verse |
Condensed language, imagery. Distilled, rhythmic expression of imaginative thoughts and perceptions. |
|
Folklore |
Literary heritage of humankind. Traditional stories, myths, legends, nursery rhymes, and songs from the past. Oral tradition; no known author. |
|
Fantasy |
|
|
Science Fiction |
Based on extending physical laws and scientific principles to their logical outcomes. Stories about what might occur in the future. |
|
Realistic Fiction |
"What if" stories, illusion of reality. Events could happen in real world, characters seem real; contemporary setting. |
|
Historical Fiction |
Set in the past, could have happened. Story reconstructs events of past age, things that could have or did occur. |
|
Biography | Plot and theme based on person's life. An account of a person's life, or part of a life history; letters, memoirs, diaries, journals, autobiographies. | |
Nonfiction |
Facts about the real world. Informational books that explain a subject or concept. |
References
Cullinan, B.E. and Galda, L. (2002). Cullinan and Galda’s literature and the child (p. 8). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Library of Congress. (2014, July 10). Frequently asked questions: Children's and young adults' cataloging program (CYAC). Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/aba/cyac/faq.html