Rhetoric & Writing Studies: Home
This is a guide to OSU Library resources for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program in the OSU English Department
Introduction to Library Resources for Rhetoric and Professional Writing
This guide will cover library resources for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program in the English Department. It includes rhetoric and composition as well as the professional communication programs in English. These concentrations rely heavily upon research in the field of education (the teaching of writing) as well as the study of rhetoric and discourse analysis. Professional communication also looks at writing and other forms of professional and technical communication in disciplines such as business, science and engineering, and may other fields.
For specific help in researching a topic in rhetoric or professional writing, please get in touch with me using the contact information on the right-hand column of this guide.
For library guides on the other programs offered by the OSU Department of English such as Literature/Creative Writing, Linguistics and TESL, and Screen Studies) consult the English Department guide.
Start with:
- CompPileCompPile is an inventory of citations in post-secondary composition and rhetoric published between 1939 and 1999 that is being consistently updated.
- MLA International BibliographyProduced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the bibliography directs researchers to more than 3 million citations from journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, scholarly websites, editions, and translations published from the late 19th century to the present.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior AbstractsLLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Indexing covers over 1,200 serials, with links to full-text of articles in hundreds of journals. Coverage from 1973 to present.
- Humanities International CompleteProvides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,200 journals and 2.8 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for nearly 1,200 journals.
Then try:
- Project MUSEFull text access for about scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press (43 titles). Coverage generally ranges from 1993 to present.
- JSTORFull-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines.
