WRT 288 Advanced Writing - Bruni

Course Specific Resources

 

**Sample Topic Poll 

 

**Library Session Feedback 

 

 

3 Steps to Begin Successful Research

 

1. Learn about a possible topic: Who, what, when, where, why. You should be able to talk for a minute, without

    repeating yourself, on your possible topic. Try using background resources. 

 

2. Find an interesting question--not too easy, not too fuzzy, not too many parts, not too impossible. Should

    require analysis and thought.

 

3. List 2-3 main sub questions you'll have to research to answer your main question. 

 

 

Background Resources

 

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

The premier online resource covering all sides of contemporary social issues.

 

CQ Researcher--Try the 'Browse tab' then select Climate, environment issues. 

CQ Researcher explores important issues ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health,

education and science and technology.

 

Points of View Reference Center

A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides

of a current issue.

 

ProCon.org

From website: Our official mission statement is: "Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed

citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, and primarily pro-con format."

 

Science Reference Center

Provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content including science encyclopedias,

reference books, and periodicals.

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts,

medicine, and science.

 

Search@UW

You can search the catalog and limit your items to reference entries. On the left, select 'Refine My Entries',

then select 'more options', then select 'Reference Entries.'

 

Encyclopedia.com      

A large collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides reference entries from published

sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia.

 

Disciplinary Research Databases

 

Education 

       

Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well

as full text for more than 1,200 journals, books, and monographs.

 

ERIC

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to more than 1.3 million records

related to education literature and resources.

 

 

Multiple subjects

 

 Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from

more than 13,000 publications.

 

Humanities International Complete

Provides full text to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world

including full text for more than 1,200 journals.

 

Society, communities, sociology

 

SocINDEX with Full Text

Contains over 2 million records from 1,200 core journals including full text from 700 journals.

 

Gender, women's, LGBTQ studies

        

GenderWatch

GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender

roles as they affect both men and women.

 

LGBT Life with Full Text

LGBT Life with Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for over 190 journals and 330 books

and reference works.

 

Medical & nursing

 

 Medline with Full Text

 Medline with Full Text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over

 1,500 journals.

 

 CINAHL Plus with Full Text

 CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals,

 providing full text for more than 770 journals.

 

 

Business & economic

 

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for

more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.

 

Hoover's Online

Hoover's Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth company

and industry research.

 

ABI/INFORM Complete

ABI/INFORM Complete includes full text journals and newspapers from the business press as well

as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports.

 

 

Political, law, legislation

 

Political Science Complete

Provides indexing and abstracting for 800 journals, with full-text coverage for 350 of those journals.

 

Public Administration Abstracts

Provides 60,000 bibliographic records going back to 1974, covering the most important journals

within the public administration discipline.

 

Government information, education, labor, etc. 

 

Statistical Abstract of the United States

The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic

organization of the United States.

 

Government Printing Office

Provides access to a variety of government documents and legislation to all areas of the United

States.

 

Citation Help

 

Citing References in Your Paper

Good site from the UW Madison Writing Center. Learn how to cite in less common styles, such

as APSA (Political Science), CBE (Biology), and more.

 

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Great information on citing a variety of sources in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. This site also

includes a lot of good information on the writing and research process.