Class Help Page: English 321: Intermediate Composition, Spring 2008

Reference Resources [tips]

Online--
   Britannica Online
   Selected Reference Resources

Print--Christopher Center Reference Stacks, 2nd floor--
General Encyclopedias:
  Encyclopaedia Britannica AE5 .E363
  Encyclopaedia Britannica--Book of the Year AE5 .E364

Subject-Specific Encyclopedias:
   To find a Subject-Specific Encyclopedia for your topic, browse the reference collection; here's a guide to the Library of Congress system:

A General
B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
C History of Civilization, Archaeology, Genealogy, Collective Biography
D History: World, General; Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Gypsies
E History: United States, General
F History: United States, Local; Canada; South and Central America
G Geography, Anthropology, Sports
H Economics, Business, Sociology, Social Work
J Political Science
K Law
L Education
M Music
N Fine Arts and Architecture
P Language and Literature
Q Science
R Medicine, Nursing
S Agriculture
T Engineering, Photography, and Home Economics
U-V Military and Naval Science
Z Library Science, Printing and Publishing

Internet Resources [tips]

Search online: Google / Yahoo / Live Search / Ask

Google Scholar "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature."

Consider consulting our list of Resources by Major & Minor to locate web sites that are likely to have information about your topic.

Finding Books [off campus access] [tips]

GALILEO - VU Libraries Catalog resources available at VU libraries [more...]

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

Academic Search Premier. is a comprehensive academic database useful in almost every class. It's the best choice for finding journal or magazine articles on almost any academic topic. [more...]

The best choice for finding newspaper articles is LexisNexis Academic. This database allows the user to limit the search to only The New York Times or The Washington Post. [more...]

CQ Researcher provides 48 comprehensive reports a year on current, often controversial topics. [more...]

The Library subscribes to roughly 150 databases and indexes; find the best choice(s) for your subject at the Subject / Topic Database List.

If you already have a citation for a particular article, use JournaLocator to determine if VU has a subscription to the journal; search for the title of the publication, not the title of the article.

Final Writing and Presentation

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed., Reference, Stacks
  LB 2369 .G53 2003
The Bedford Handbook, 6th ed. Reference, Reserve, Stacks PE 1408 .H277 2002

Citing Resources: http://www.valpo.edu/library/citing.html

VU Writing Center: http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/; THE BLUE LIGHT (the Writing Center Blog) is always open online; go to http://blogs.valpo.edu/writingcenter

 



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