English 401: Composition IV

Selected Resources

A. C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College

 


Finding Books

 

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.

  • 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.


Search Terms, Finding Articles

 

Sample search terms for this assignment:

Research, Research tools
Assessment, studies, educational tests and measurements
Peer tutoring, peer tutors
research design, research methodology
Composition, english composition
freshmen, first-year
peer teaching
Writing across the curriculum (WAC), Writing to learn
Students, peers

 

  • ERIC ~ Educational database, allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Full text available.
  • Professional Development Collection~ Designed for educators, provides full text of articles from nearly 550 journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. Full text available.

  • 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"). All full text.

  • 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

These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your author or literary work/ time period: some sites even contain online full-text publications, essays and articles. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

  • Google Scholar ~contains full-text resources that overlap, compliment or link to our subsciption databases. Use identical or similar search terms that you would use for our database searches.
  • 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.

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Evaluating & Citing Internet Resources


Updated 04/03/07 by J. Hill, librarian, Elmhurst College