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More HelpIn 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.
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More HelpWriting 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)
OSU Resources
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)
Books
OSU Libraries Catalog Find books in the OSU Libraries
Summit Catalog Find books in academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Usually takes 3-5 days to arrive
Articles
Academic Search Premier Use as a starting point to find newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Scroll down the list and select Academic Search Premier
Other Databases a list of all databases available at OSU Use the pulldown menu to find databases listed by subject.
Newspaper Articles
News articles can be found using several of the Library's databases. If you are working off-campus, you will need to log-in using your OSU ID
Lexis-Nexis Academic Articles from local, national and international print and broadcast news sources. Updated daily.
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.
Wall Street Journal Full-text articles from 1986
Websites
Try a few different search engines and also the advanced search options
KartOO Results displayed visually
SortFix "A friendly search engine" Provides keyword suggestions
Primary Sources