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Rhetoric: Speaking and Reading (010:006:050)

Alina Haliliuc, Instructor

Marianne Mason, Librarian Presenter
Main Library, Rm. 4037
February 25, 2008

Restricted Resource = Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Iowa

Resources

Library Home Page: Use this page to locate all research souces in the UI Libraries collection.

InfoHawk: Use the library catalog to search for resources included in the UI Libraries collection including books, journal titles, videos, and other materials.

Academic Search Elite  Restricted Resource - This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Access World News Restricted Resource - Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers. Includes: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Des Moines Register.

Issues and Controversaries Restricted Resource - This database contains up-to-date and in-depth information about the most debated issues of the day.

JSTOR Restricted Resource and Project Muse Restricted Resource - are complementary databases of peer reviewed scholarly full-text journal articles in fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.  JSTOR contains ONLY back issues while Project Muse coverage begins in 1995.

Rhetoric Website for Rhetoric students.

Terms

A primary resource is information that originates directly from the source created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs or oral histories. Examples include laws issued by Congress, annual reports of businesses, autobiographies, text of interviews, and newspaper articles reporting current events.

A secondary resource is a work that attempts to interpret or analyze a subject. Examples include biographies and journal articles.

A fee-based Internet subscription is a database that is available only to paid subscribers. These searchable databases are intended to provide information on a specific topic or type of resource. Lexis-Nexis Congressional is an example of a fee-based subscription.

A free Internet site can provide a wide range of information types, but must be used with care. Always evaluate the quality of the information provided including obvious bias, blatant inaccuracies and a stale posting date.

A scholarly resource is the in-depth treatment of a specific topic and is often sponsored by an academic or research institution, the author's credentials are clearly stated, and the text is verified and supported with extensive footnotes and bibliographies.

A popular resource is a general treatment of a subject written by a reliable source, usually a staff member of a commercial publishing company. Some reference to sources used may be mentioned in the body of the article, but popular materials rarely include footnotes.

M.Mason
February 2008