Library Guides: ENGL 015: Rhetoric and Composition (Abington): Finding Sources

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Find background information & overviews; great for introductions & establishing facts about a topic!

Helpful for topic development; great for persuasive arguments!

Covers many current issues; good for narrowing down your topic.

Many current articles on a wide variety of topics. Best for once you have a solid topic & keywords brainstormed. Find scholarly articles here!

Find background information on your topic; excellent for introductions & establishing facts on a topic!

LionSearch
An integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications — the Libraries' most Google-like search.
ProQuest (Multiple Databases)
Searches multiple ProQuest products, indexing 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. It contains Full text (word file with no photos or tables) or images (looks like real paper publication) to over 2,000 journals, and Full text to 150+ newspapers.

Searches multiple ProQuest products, indexing 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. It contains Full text (word file with no photos or tables) or images (looks like real paper publication) to over 2,000 journals, and Full text to 150+ newspapers. Keywords: news, new york times,current events, contemporary issues, hot topics, english 15,cas100.
Oxford English Dictionary
The definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.

Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. By accessing Google Scholar through the Penn State Libraries' you will be able to gain more access to full-text resources.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

LionSearch
You can search the Penn State Libraries catalog through LionSearch. Using the filters on the left, check "Books / eBooks." You can also scroll down to select "Library Location > Abington" if you do not want to wait for a book to be sent from another campus (this service is free).