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Rhetoric and Composition Research Guide

Databases

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
• CAMIO
• Contemporary Authors, Literary Criticism (Gale)
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences III
• Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
• Literature Resource Center (Gale)
• MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)
• MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
• ProjectMuse Humanities Collection
• Twentieth Century American Poetry (ProQuest)
• Twentieth Century English Poetry (ProQuest)

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias  - General and background information on a topic.

• Oxford English Dictionary REF PE 1625 087
• Black Writers REF E 185.96 B545
• Writers Handbook REF PN 137 W73

Biographical Sources

• Cyclopedia of World Authors REF PN 451 C93
• European Writers REF PN 501 E9
• Dictionary of Literary Biography REF PS 21 D5
• Larrouse’s Dictionary of Writers REF PN 451 L37
• Encyclopedia of World Biography REF CT 103 M27
• Dictionary of American Biography REF E176 D563

Handbooks & Manuals

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers REF LB 2369 G53
• Handbook for Writers PE 1408 T696
• New Oxford Guide to Writing PE 1408 K2728

Literary Criticism

• Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 REF PN 86 L56
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism REF PN 761 N56
• Contemporary Literary Criticism REF PN 771 C59
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism REF PN 771 G27
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism REF PN 681.5 C57
• Survey of Long Fiction REF PN 81 C7
• Poetry Criticism REF PN 1010 P499