Pro vs. Con on leading issuesprovides magazine, newspaper and government documents organized by topic.
Each weekly report (published 44 times per year) offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a single topic. The 12,000 word reports provide up-to-date information on a wide range of social, economic, political, and environmental issues. 10 year back file.
New Literacies Alliance (2:57)
Takes a topic and uses the 5Ws to create a focused research question. Ask students to consider if the question works for the assignment at hand. Also illustrates how research questions can be narrowed or expanded with the 5Ws. The narrator mentions the challenges of questions that are too broad or too narrow.
Salem E-books are electronic versions of print reference books held in the Merced College Library.
Specialized academic and encyclopedic material: find academic articles and definitions. Excellent beginning resource. Find the Career Information Center here!
Covers American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. TheEncyclopediaincludes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.