Research Guides: Writing: Getting Started: Articles and Books

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Finding scholarly articles

Need to find scholarly or peer-reviewed articles? Try searching in one of these "best bet" databases.

Seeker This link opens in a new window
An all-encompassing database, Seeker searches books and media from our catalog as well as newspaper, magazine and journal articles, business publications and more.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Upgraded and Expanded Content!
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.

All Writing Databases
A list of all of the library databases that contain useful information about writing.

Books and e-books

Need an overview of a topic, or a lot of information about something specific? Need to use sources other than scholarly articles? Here's a link to our Writing books and e-books:

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Full-text online dictionary with quotations.

Writing books and e-books
This link will take you to a Seeker search of the library's books and e-books on Writing topics.