English 472, Spring 2010

English 472, Rhetorical Studies, Spring 2010

Research Tools:

Library of Congress
Speeches and Speech Makers — U of Iowa resource listing links to important speech archives
wwwebster's dictionary — An online version of the famous Merriam-Webster dictionary.

ASU Library's Reference & Research Tools:

Electronic Journals — Locate electronic and print journals by title.
Databases — databases accessible by broad subject category or by specific subjects
Subject Course Guides — Pretty self-explanatory

Particularly Useful Databases (ASU users only)

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) — "(1975+) Covers a wide range of academic subjects. Features full text for selected journals, abstracts and indexing for over 3,600 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor." Search the Mass Media and Communication database as well.
CIOS Journal Index System — "(1962+) Provides access to the contents of 21 communication journals. It is a subset of the COMINDEX database."
JSTOR — "Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology."
ProjectMUSE — "(1990+) Provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others."