English 401: Composition IV

Selected Resources

A. C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College

 



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 ~ Education database, allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Full text available.
  • Academic Search Complete~ 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.
  • 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.

  • Other General Databases ~select this link to perform a combined search across several general databases, such as Periodical Abstracts, WilsonSelectPlus, and Article First. Enter your keyword(s) in the search boxes, and check the resources you'd like to search.

       


    How to full text from an article citation in our databases

    If...you don't see an option like "HTML Full Text" or "PDF Full Text" next to the article citation-
    Then...look for , or , or "Find this resource with SFX." Clicking on this option will open a new window.



    If you see an "Online Full Text" option available, clicking on "Go" will take you to the full text.



    If you don't see the "Online Full Text" option, then you can see if  we own the journal in print by clicking on the "We may own this option" ororder the article by clicking on the "Request this item through Interlibrary Loan" link.

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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 10/23/2007 by J. Hill, librarian, Elmhurst College