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WR 121: English Composition

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WR121 databases

  • OASIS - OSU Libraries Online Catalog open database
    Find books & more in the OSU Libraries
  • Orbis Academic Union Catalog locked database
    Find books in academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Usually takes 3-5 days to arrive
  • Academic Search Premier locked database
    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 locked database
    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.
  • Newspaper Source locked database
    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 locked database
    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

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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

Academic Writing and the Use of Argument

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

Mindomo

bubbl.us

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

Online Merriam-Webster

Visual Thesaurus

Evaluating Websites

Evaluating Internet Information (Johns Hopkins University) 

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