W131ML: Elementary Composition for Multilingual Writers (all sections)
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Research Databases for Text and Images
An online resource that covers many subject areas in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities with many publication types: books, magazines, newspapers, education reports, and academic journals. The reading level varies from expert to non-expert. Contains both abstracts (summaries of articles and books with links to request the full article/book) and complete articles.
An online resource with images related to architecture, art, humanities, and social sciences.
Associated Press (AP) Photo Archive
Contains the AP's current photos and a huge selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope.
CAMIO RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
The (Art Museum Image Consortium) contains over 100,000 downloadable digital images of art works and other documents dating from BC to the present.
Contains over 100,000 images including a wide range of photos and maps with an emphasis on world news and events as well as contemporary historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.
Indexes and abstracts. Materials in education and related fields. Publication types include professional and academic journals, books, and full-text of most of the ERIC documents from 1993 to the present.
Features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority presses, representing overlooked perspectives. With coverage from 1990 to the present.
An online resource that covers many subject areas, including the humanities and social sciences, with academic journals. All articles will be available in pdf format.
An online resource for finding newspaper articles from around the world, from 1980 to present day. Reading level varies from expert to non-expert. All articles will be available in pdf format.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An online resource that offers brief overviews on a variety of topics in the field of philosophy. All entries are available in full-text online.
Research and Information Resources
Evaluating Information (IU Wells Library)
Evaluating Web Sources (Cornell University)
Evaluating Web Sources (UC-Berkeley)
Use an encyclopedia to get a basic understanding of a topic, a framework for understanding a more complex idea, and a list of other resources to consult. Encyclopedia Brittanica is a well-known research tool.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
A basic English dictionary that can be accessed on and off campus.
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
Oxford English Dictionary Online
A more extensive English dictionary
Use Visuwords to see how ideas are related, to find synonyms and antonyms, and to create a visual map of your ideas.
Wikipedia--The Free Encyclopedia
Article System (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
"Flow" Strategies (ODU)
Gender Sensitive Language (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
The Rhetorical Situation (Purdue OWL)
Verb Tense--Controlling Shifts (Purdue OWL)
Verbals--Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives (Purdue OWL)
Writing for International Audiences (Purdue OWL)
Writing Guides--Disciplinary (CSU Writing Center)
