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English Language Academy Research Guide

 

 

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CD-ROM Programs for EnglishLanguageAcademy

 

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Periodical Holdings List

 

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Internet Resources

 

General ESL Resources

 

Conversation & Pronunciation

Teacher Resources

English as a Second Language

TOEFL

Study Skills & Assessment

 

 

Grammar Resources

 

Active/Passive Voice

Phrasal Verbs (Idioms)

Capitalization

Parallel Structures

Clauses

Sentence Fragments

Combining Sentences

Simple / Compound / Complex Sentences

Conditional

Subject-Verb Agreements

Conjunctions

Topic Sentences

Gerunds & Infinitives

Verb Tenses

Grammar Guides

Vocabulary

Modals

Writing

 

 

Writing Research Papers

 

Avoiding Plagiarism

Evaluate Web Sites

Citation Style Guide

Famous Q uotations

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Documenting Sources

Foreign Language Dictionaries

 

Ready Reference

Calculators & Conversions

News

Calendars & Time

Philadelphia

Currency

Politics & International Affairs

Immigration & Citizenship

Volunteerism

Money Management for College Students

 

Online Journals

Electronic Databases

Electronic databases are available on all Library computers.  Please see a Librarian orcontact usfor a password to accessthese electronic databases from home.

EBSCOhost                    

General database containing both indexing and some full-text for many popular magazines.  EBSCOhost indexes most of our general magazines.

 

Gale Contemporary Authors

(available via Access PA)

Provides biographical information for over 10,000 contemporary novelists, playwrights, poets, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters.

 

SIRS Researcher

Full-text general database that covers scholarly magazines and news articles.

 

 

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CD-ROM Programs Available for Use in the Library

 

·          Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test

 

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Periodical Holdings List for EnglishLanguageAcademy

 

For more periodicals, please see the Library's complete Periodical Holdings List .

 

American Demographics

Jul 1996-Aug 2000

American Literature

v. 1, 1929-Dec 2005

Black Collegian

Jan/Feb 1983-

Black Issues in Higher Education 

(now Diverse)

May 15, 1988-Aug 11, 2005

College English

Oct 1958-Apr 1992
Microfiche: 1993-

Commentary

Jan 1968-Jun 2002

Daedalus

Win 1965-Win 1981; Win 1990; Win 1996

Diverse (was Black Issues in Higher Education)

Aug 25, 2005-

Explicator

Feb, May, Nov 1956;
Nov 1959-Jan 1966;
Fall 1980-Sum 1984, Sum 1988; Fall 1990-
Microfiche: Oct. 1942-June 1956; Sep 1975- Sum 1992

Journal of Cultural Diversity

Spr 1998-Win 2002

Library Journal

Sep 1, 1994-Feb 1, 2003

Modern Fiction Studies

1955-

Modern Language Quarterly

1966-1967; Dec 1970-1989
1991-1994
Microfiche: 1988-

Nineteenth Century Fiction
See: Nineteenth Century Literature

 

Nineteenth Century Literature

1959-1968; Mar 1971-Dec 2005

Poetry

Nov 1972-

Publisher's Weekly

1996-Dec 2003

Review of Contemporary Fiction

Spr 1986-

(SLI) Studies in the Literary Imagination

Spr 1998-

Studies in English Literature Quarterly

1963-1965; Win 1971-Spr 1974; Win 1986-Sum 1988; Win 1998-Win 2000

Studies in Short Fiction

Aut 1988; Win 1989-Fall 1999
Microfiche: 1976-1998

Twentieth Century Literature

1955-

Virginia Quarterly Review

1968-

Yale Journal of Criticism

Microfiche: 1989-

 

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Internet Resources

General ESL Sites

 

Conversation & Pronunciation

 

·          Activities for ESL Students

·          American English Pronunciation

·          Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

 

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