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English Composition Research Guide

 

 

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Periodical Holdings List for English Composition

 

Interlibrary Loan Request Form

 

Online Journals for English Composition

 

 

 

 

·          CD-ROM Programs for English Composition

 

View CD-ROM Programs Available for Use in the Library

 

 

  

Internet Resources

 

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

Foreign Language Dictionaries

Citation Style Guides

Famous Quotations

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Documenting Sources

 

 

Literature

 

American Literature

English Literature

Authors

Glossaries

Criticism

Poetry

Electronic Books Online

Shakespeare

 

 

Electronic Databases

 

Electronic databases are available on all Library computers.  Please see a Librarian or contact us for a password to accessthese electronic databases from home.

 

 

Academic Search Elite

 

Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas such as social sciences, art and literature, computer science, education, humanities, language and linguistics, multi-cultural studies, and science.

 

Contemporary Authors

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

 

Encyclopædia Britannica Online

 

Provides access to the complete encyclopedia, plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, Notable Quotations, Year in Review, World Data, and Gateway to the Classics.  Includes numerous illustrations, photographs, and audio & video clips.

 

NoveList

 

Database provides access to reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.

 

SIRS Researcher

 

Provides access to numerous full-text articles covering social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political & global issues.

 

 

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CD-ROM Programs Available for Use in the Library

 

 

·          Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers

·          Discovering Authors 3.0

·          Exploring Poetry

 

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Periodical Holdings List for English Composition

 

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

 

 

 

American Literature

v. 1, 1929 - Dec 2005

College English

Oct 1958 - Apr 1992
Microfiche: 1993 -

Commentary

Jan 1968 - Jun 2002

Daedalus

Win 1965 - Win 1981; Win 1990; Win 1996

Explicator

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

Library Journal

Sep 1, 1994 - Feb 1, 2003

Modern Fiction Studies

1955 -

Modern Language Quarterly

 

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

New York Times Book Review

1994 -

New York Times Magazine

Dec 15, 1974 -

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 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 - 2006

Yale Journal of Criticism

Microfiche: 1989 -

 

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Internet Resources

 

Grammar Resources

 

Active/Passive Voice

 

·          Causative

·          Choose the correct sentence

·          Complete the sentence