Rebecca Wilson Lundin

Research

Penn State's academic integrity resources can be found here. Familiarize yourself with these guidelines before beginning your research.

To begin research, check out the Penn State Libraries Catalog and the E-Resource list. On the E-Resource list, you may want to use the following databases:

— LexisNexis Academic Universe (a database of newspaper articles)
— CQ Researcher (each issue contains opinions and research results on a specific topic)
— Project MUSE and JSTOR (full-text articles from academic journals)
— OED Online (web-searchable version of the Oxford English Dictionary)

JSTOR and Project MUSE will prove particularly helpful in future rhetoric classes. A few other online sources of information to consider are the journal Kairos, the CompPile database, and the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue.

Style and Citation

For questions about usage, punctuation, clarity, and style, see Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.

Bedford St. Martin's provides the Research and Documentation site, which gives useful information and quick references for a variety of citation formats. Go here when you don't have your MLA handy.

KnightCite and EasyBib can help you compile lists of works cited. Double check the resulting entries before putting them into your papers!