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WR121 databases
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OASIS - OSU Libraries Online Catalog
Find books & more in the OSU Libraries
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Orbis Academic Union Catalog
Find books in academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Usually takes 3-5 days to arrive
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Academic Search Premier
Use as a starting point to find newspaper, magazine and journal articles. If you are working off-campus, you will need to log-in with your ONID.
Coverage Dates: 1975 - present -
LexisNexis Academic
Articles from local, national and international print and broadcast news sources. All full-text. Updated daily. If you are working off-campus, you will need to log-in with your ONID.
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Newspaper Source
Searches 25 national and international newspapers, 260 regional papers as well as broadcast news sources. Many of the articles are available online, and this database is updated daily. If you are working off-campus, you will need to log-in with your ONID.
Coverage Dates: 1984 - present -
Wall Street Journal
Full-text of the Wall Street Journal from 1986. If you are working off-campus, you will need to log-in with your ONID.
Coverage Dates: 1986 - present
Library Session Evaluation
Argument Paper & Information Literacy Portfolio (ILP)
In preparation for writing your argument essay, you will complete the Information Literacy Portfolio, a set of exercises to help with topic exploration and finding sources. Use the resources listed on this page to help you with the ILP and your paper.
Writing Resources & Tools
Writing for College (Dartmouth)
Use of Argument in Academic Writing (Writing Center UNC-Chapel Hill)
Thesis Statement
Developing a Thesis Statement (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
Developing your Thesis (Dartmouth)
How to Write a Thesis Statement (Indiana Univ.- Bloomington)
Organizing Ideas: Mindmaps
Mindmeister collaborative option
Citations
MLA Formatting & Style Guide (OWL at Purdue)
Online Citation Builder (UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries)
Plagiarism
Oops, I Plagiarized Tips and Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism (UCLA Library)
Plagiarism Tutorial (San Jose State University)
Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliographies (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison)
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (Cornell University Library)
Research Resources
Keywords and Related Concepts
Selecting keywords (Univ. of Washington)
Wikimindmap Discover related concepts Select en.wikipedia.or from the pull-down menu
Locating Keywords
Dictionaries and Thesauri (0xford Reference Online) requires OSU login
Evaluating Websites
Evaluating Internet Information (Johns Hopkins University)
Last Update: 05 Feb 21:09
