Porter - ENGL 1102 - English Research Guide - LibGuides at LaGrange College

Purdue Owl Web Resource

During your library instruction sessions, we have often mentioned using Purdue Owl to help with formatting and citing in MLA style. The Purdue OWL website is a great resource for learning those formatting rules. Click below!

Purdue OWL
As suggested by our Librarians and many of the Cornerstone Professors, visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (or Purdue OWL as we call it. Get it?) to get help with formatting and Citations. Here you can find style guides for MLA, APA, Turabian, and more!

Activity Links

GALILEO

Country Resources

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

Reference Sources

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference presents content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 2 million entries, 65,000+ images (art, diagrams, interactive maps and photos), and over 93,000 audio pronunciation files. The content is enriched by a network of cross-reference links that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide accurate, contextual results.
Gale eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

E-books

Search the Ebook Central collection for full-text e-books!

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
From a single interface, researchers can access over 810,000 ebooks and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers. On average, 100,000 newly published titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build dynamic collections that meet the unique needs of their community of researchers.

What about websites?

The CRAAP Test

If your professor allows you to use websites for your sources (and be sure you ask before using a website), you can use The CRAAP Test to see if the website you are evaluating is credible.

How can I tell if it is a Scholarly Source?

Types of Journals Handout
Here a quick, printable handout for distinguishing between Scholarly Journals, Substantive Magazines, and Popular Magazines.
Scholarly Source Checklist
Use this checklist to guide your evaluation of a source.

Here is a quick, printable handout to help you distinguish between Scholarly Journals, Substantive Magazines, and Popular Magazines.

English Research Guide: Porter - ENGL 1102

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