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Journal
Articles -- Writing & Rhetoric
To look for articles in journals, you will
need to start with a research database.
The following databases provide full text or abstracts of
articles from thousands of journals and other sources. You
can also browse a list of
individual electronic journals for writing.
Some databases, such as MLA, do not offer full text of
the articles. Use the
 button
to check our other resources for full text.
ERIC
A national database of education literature, including
reports and journal articles. Includes materials on
teaching writing.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory &
Criticism
Informative introduction to major people and ideas in
the world of literary theory and criticism.
JSTOR
Contains complete full-text back files (EXCEPT for the
latest five years) of core scholarly journals in such
areas as sociology, history, economics, political
science, mathematics, African-American studies, Asian
studies and others.
Muse
Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in
the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Dissertation Abstracts
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Required. Index of dissertations and theses from
universities and colleges in North America and Europe
Oxford English Dictionary
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of
over half a million words, both present and past. It
includes etymological analysis, listings of variant
spellings, and shows pronunciation using the
International Phonetic Alphabet
Most Useful MLA
Includes abstracts of articles from critical literary and language journals.
Coverage: 1963→current Project Muse
Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics
Coverage: 1993→current JSTOR
Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American & Asian studies, literature, humanities, music, and biological, health & general sciences.
Coverage: 1838→2003 ERIC
A national database of education literature, including reports and journal articles.
Coverage: 1966→current Oxford English Dictionary
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It includes etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet
Coverage: current
Also Useful ClasePeriodica
Search 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Coverage: 1975→current Contemporary Authors
Biographies and bibliographies of 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
Coverage: current eScholarship
A collection of more than 60 e-books covering international studies, European history and literature. Provided by the California Digital Library and the University of California Press.
Coverage: 1991→current Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Provides abstracts of articles from about 2,000 journals (published worldwide), coverage of recent books, book review citations and dissertation listings.
Coverage: 1973→current ScienceDirect
Provides full text access to over 1,000 journals covering all fields of science.
Coverage: 1995→current Womens Studies International
Includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.
Coverage: 1972→current
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Books
Not everything is available on the Internet,
and as old-fashioned as it may seem, the
best place to begin your research is in
your library's collection. A lot
of time and money is spent on collecting
the best for your courses and this will provide a precise
set of hits, especially
helpful if you are feeling overwhelmed by your topic.
Depending on how much time you
have, you have a couple of options if you need to extend
your search to other local academic libraries (Circuit) or
world-wide (WorldCat).
Books at Cal
State San Marcos
Library Catalog
Search our local collection of about 250,000
books.
How to Search
the Catalog
The simplest way to get started is by using the default
KEYWORD search. Type in one or two words about your topic
(examples are: rhetoric, creative writing, narratives) to
begin your search.
Once you have a list of results (these are book and
journal titles), click on likely titles to view the entire
record.
For more precise searching, look at the SUBJECTS on
items that meet your research needs and follow those links
to find other works on your topic that don't necessarily
use the same terminology that you did in the keyword
search. An example is a broad keyword search on 'narrative
writing', with 55 items returned on all types of narrative
writing. But then you find the subject heading
Violence in literature
which is really more appropriate as you want to narrow
your paper to how people narrate stories about violence in their
lives and by clicking on that subject heading, you have 37
titles to look at, many of which did not return in the
'narrative writing' search.
Other Options
Circuit (1-3
day delivery)
Search the collections of other San Diego
area libraries -- about 3,000,000 books.
Find and request books directly online;
pick them up at our Library in 1-3 days.
WorldCat
(5-10 day delivery)
Search the collections of libraries world-wide
-- about 52,000,000 books. Find a book
in this database, and fill-out an Interlibrary
Loan delivery request. Books will be
delivered to the Library for pickup.
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Online Resources
Writing
Center Sites
Full-text Literature Sites
Electronic Books
and Technologies
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Tutorials &
Tools
Tutorials
Tools
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Citing
Your Sources
As you write your papers, you'll need to
cite passages and ideas from the sources
you've found. You may find the
following sites useful to supplement Keys for Writers
and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
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Professional Resources
Literary Market Place
Listings for publishers, agents, manufacturers
and other businesses associated with publishing.
Free users have access to partial content
of the full resource found in Library
Reference at PN161 .L5
Writer's
Market
Similar to LMP with more orientation
to the writer, rather than publisher.
Of special note are tips to novice and
experienced professional writers and a
glossary of terms used in the writing
profession (See "encyclopedia"
link.) (Full resource in Library Reference
at PN161 .W83)
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Organizations &
Listservs
Organizations
Listservs
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