Advanced Composition and Literature: ENC-1102

This research guide provides links to library resources for the ENC-1102 course. Click on the tabs on the left to search the resources.

For help with your research, please contact Fadi Dagher at fdagher@stu.edu or (305) 628-6631.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection

The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 6,300 scholarly books.

EBSCO e-Book Collection

A wide selection of academic e-books from top publishers and presses.

Gale Books & Authors

Includes more than 5.6 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature.

Literature for Students

Provides access to literary works that help you understand, analyze, and appreciate complex literary works. 

ProQuest EBook Central

Access to wide selection of ebooks for research, teaching, and learning with content from leading publishers.

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Academic Search Ultimate

Provides access to over 10,099 active full-text journals. It covers a wide range of subject areas offering thousands of international journals to provide a global context to research

Literature Resource Center

Provides access to scholarly articles in the fields of literature and the humanities. It also provides up-to-date biographies, work and topic overviews, audio interviews, and reviews on a diverse range of writers from all eras.

JSTOR

JSTOR provides full runs of top scholarly journals, books, primary sources, and research reports in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The New York Times Review of Books

Access from January 3, 1988, to the present, with some exceptions.

Project Muse

Provide access to authoritative humanities and social science journals and books from some 400 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

Reference works, such as Encylopedia and handbooks, are designed for quick fact-finding information rather than in-depth reading.

Britannica Academic

A comprehensive resource for researchers, covering a wide variety of subjects, including literature.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference provides full-text versions of over 3,500 published subject dictionaries and encyclopedia from more than 100 publishers in a variety of major academic subjects, including literature.

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

Offers about 200 main entries explaining and illustrating literary symbols along with hundreds of cross-references and quotations.

Literary Dictionary

Offers biographies of authors as well as essays on literary, cultural, and historical matters.

American Women Writers.1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographic Critical Sourcebook

Offers information on major works by women authors who published their most significant works between 1900 and 1945.

Britannica Academic: Biographies

A comprehensive resource for researchers, covering a wide variety of subjects, including biographies.

LitFinder

Apart from the primary sources, this database offers over 500 biographies.  

Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Provides access to ~135,000 printed works.

LitFinder

Provides access to over 130,000 poems and over 650,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.  

Academic Video Online on Alexander Street

Provides access to over 80,000 titles, spanning a wide range of subjects.

Films on Demand

Provides access to over 40000 videos across more than 700 topics, supporting 30 academic subjects.

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

ASLE encompasses the genres of literary nonfiction, nature poetry, and environmental fiction, as well as ecofeminism, which explores the relationship between human beings and the natural world.

Literary Organizations

Compiled by the American Writers Museum

Modern Languages Association

Since 1883, the MLA has been striving to strengthen the study of language and literature. 

American Psychological Association (APA)

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) is the preferred writing style and citation manual for research in Psychology and the Social Sciences. A copy of the manual is available at the library.

Resources on APA Style and Documentation, 7th Edition

APA Style Quick Reference Guide (Created by APA)

APA Style and Grammar Guidelines (Created by APA)

APA Style Sample Papers (Created by APA)

APA Style Citing Artificial Intelligence (Created by APA)

APA Style Tutorials and Webinars (Created by APA)

The Purdue University OWL APA Style Introduction

APA Style Introduction

Citation Management Programs

Use one of these two programs: the STU-provided RefWorks or the open-access Zotero to help you collect and organize citations, collaborate with other researchers, and cite and build reference lists. 

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Glenn Hubert Student Learning Center

Your academic hub for free one-on-one tutoring, independent study, and skill-building workshops designed to empower STUdents with the tools and resources needed to thrive in college. Contact the tutoring coordinator at Tutoring@stu.edu