ENG 101: English Composition I: Course Resources

Current articles, topic overviews, opinion pieces, primary sources documents, statistics, images, videos and audio files on controversial social issues.

Essays and articles that present multiple sides of current issues

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

More than 600 full-text reference books on most major subject areas

Comprehensive collection of academic journals for scholarly research

Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism

Broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes

The Explicator publishes works anthologized and studied in colleges, criticisms and notes on prose, poetry and literary works from Greek and Roman times to the present.

Subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics

Back issues of fifty eight literary journals

Founded in 1962 to further the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian period (1830-1914) in Britain, Victorian Poetry today publishes articles from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender indentifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth.

What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by “peer-reviewed” sources? What should you do if you can’t find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments.

Written by two experienced librarians, the guide introduces the resources available through college and university libraries and explains how to access the ones a student needs. It focuses on research in literature, identifying relevant databases and research guides and explaining different types of sources and the role each plays in researching and writing about a literary text. But it contains helpful information for any student researcher, describing strategies for searching the Web to find the most useful material and offering guidance on organizing research and documenting sources with MLA style. Newly updated 2nd edition!