Research Help: ENGL 1200: Writing II (Gillis): Recommended Resources

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Credo Reference offers several quotation dictionaries.

Find a quotation from history to use as a jumping off point to compare to something of today. It should related to love and/or war.

For example,

Find a quote from the Suffragette Movement at the turn of the century and compare it to the "Me Too" movement
Benjamin Franklin's quote "Liberty vs. Security" vs. the "War on Terror"
A song from World War I "Over There" used as propaganda vs. propaganda for going to war in Iraq in 2002
Beyonce's song "If I were a boy" vs. a song, "My Fate is in Your Hands" by Josephine Baker (singer from 1920's and 30's)

Credo Reference
An easy-to-use database providing dictionary and encyclopedia entries on subjects in all academic disciplines; a scholarly alternative to Wikipedia

Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781849720342
Publication Date: 2001-12-31
Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations by Fran Alexander (Editor); Anne Stibbs (Editor); John Daintith (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781849720618
Publication Date: 2001-12-31
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PN6080.O95 1999
ISBN: 9780198601739
Publication Date: 1999-11-25
This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.

Recommended Databases

Academic Search Ultimate
Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
America: History & Life
Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences, JSTOR Life Sciences, and JSTOR eBooks
An advanced, multidisciplinary database featuring secondary resources in history, scholarly articles, over 57,000 eBooks and other resources spanning the humanities and sciences.
MLA International Bibliography
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's containing over 2.3 million citations (some with full text) from more than 4,400 journals and 1,000 book publishers. Primarily oriented toward the Humanities.
ProQuest Religion
Articles on world religions and theology
Religion & Philosophy Collection
An easy-to-use database of scholarly articles on topics in philosophy and theology.

Web Sources

We know most searches for information start on Google. It's important to remember though, that Google's results are ranked by popularity, not necessarily authority. The best source for your information might not be in the first 20, or even the first 100 results. You can utilize Google's Advanced Search option to help narrow your results from the start:

Use Google's search box structure on the advanced page to enter the related terms in your search (i.e. girls/women/female) and create a Boolean search string (see box to the left)

Use the "Search within a site or domain" box to screen out .com sites

Google's Advanced Search
- Use Google's search box structure on the advanced page to enter the related terms in your search (i.e. girls/women/female) and create a Boolean search string (see box to the left)

- Use the "Search within a site or domain" box to screen out .com sites

Here are some suggested sites for general information about American Popular Culture by the Decade:

The People History
News and Events, Prices and Popular Culture in history from 1920 to modern day.
History Timeline of the 20th Century
Browse through this history timeline of the 20th century to examine each decade within this amazing century.
Retroland

Type in the name of a journal to see if the AVGC Library has access to it online or in our print collection:

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WorldCat.org
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Google Books
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