Selected Resources

 

Using the Library catalog

 

Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by other Illinois academic libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a "Browse Subject" term in the search box.

 

Finding literary works by and about your theorist:

Books about a theorist, or about their work- Browse Subject: Bakhtin, M.M.

Books written by a theorist- Browse Author: Bakhtin, M.M.

Sample Browse Subject terms:

Rhetoric	Discourse	Pedagogy
Discourse analysis, Literary	Oral communication-Study and Teaching	Visual Literacy
Oratory	Persuasion- Rhetoric	Written Communicaiton

Ordering books from other libraries ~ Don't limit yourself solely to Elmhurst Library's collection. Search all 65 member libraries by clicking on "Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries" at the top of the page. Order your books as soon as possible: titles can take between 7-10 days to arrive.

 

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Article databases

 

Federated Search Engine

• Use Webfeat to search several databases at once~ This link accesses our Webfeat federated search engine. This tool allows you to perform keyword searches in groupings of databases (such as English and Foreign Languages and Literatures) or our entire database, all at once.

Databases with composition theory articles

• JSTOR~ Good source for composition theory. Database includes the journals Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication, and College English. When searching JSTOR, be sure to select a specific journal or journal subject area (such as "language and literature"). Warning- no recent years of journals (roughly 2000+) are in this database. All full text.

• Project Muse~ Database includes the journals Discourse and Philosophy and Rhetoric. All full text.

• Periodical Abstracts~ Contains the following journals: English Journal (1992-present), Journal of Business and Technical Communication (1996-present), Written Communication (1996-present) and College English (1994-present). All full text.
  

• ProQuest Education Complete~ Includes the journal Composition Studies. All full text.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete~ Includes College Composition and Communication and the Journal of Business Communication. Full text available.

• MLA International Bibliography ~International index to literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
  

   

  General Databases

• Academic Search Premier~ An excellent general resource with the option to limit results to scholarly articles. Selected full text of journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others. Full text available.

 

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what? Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if we have it.

 

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Internet Resources

• Online Rhetoric journal links ~Includes links to J.A.C. (Journal of Composition Theory, formerly the Journal of Advanced Composition) as well as other online journals.

• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices~ This resource "contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices." An excellent general source.

• NCTE~ Professional website of the National Council of Teachers of English

• ABC~ Website for the Association for Business Communication

• WAC Clearinghouse ~ "Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Curriculum." Includes the full texts of the following journals: Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, Academic Writing, RhetNet: A Diologic Publishing (Ad)venture, and the WAC Journal.

Evaluating Internet Web Sites & Citation Resources

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

• MLA Citation Resources