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ENGL 100 105 Fama The Golden Thread 2024/2025

Guide for Professor Fama ENGL 100 or 105 courses reading The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair

Multi-Subject Databases

ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest Research Library's 3500 full text periodicals - scholarly, trade and popular – cover subjects from business and political science to literature and psychology.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)

Articles from the ethnic, minority and native press.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

Includes biographical information on authors and critical reviews of works. Contains encyclopedia and journal articles.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

This database offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, magazines, and news sources in many subject areas. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and much more.

JSTOR

JSTOR provides a full text archive of articles from scholarly journals in many disciplines (Art, Business, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences and more).

Academic OneFile (Gale)

Academic OneFile provides access to millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources in key subject areas such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.

LitFinder (Gale)

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

African American Experience

An online database collection on African American history and culture. Perfect for finding background information and primary sources on a broad range of topics.

Ebooks

Types of Articles

What Type of Article?

Article is a generic term for a piece of writing that is published. College and university class assignments frequently require you to use outside sources. Outside sources are ones you find on your own, not the ones your whole class is reading together. If faculty and instructors are specific about the kinds of articles required, be sure to ask. The other tabs will give you more help on deciding what type of article will help for your history research.

Scholarly articles

  • Writer's expertise comes from a higher education background in the subject
  • Audience for article is other scholars in the same discipline (subject area)
  • Uses specialized terminology from the discipline
  • Assumes you already know the basics of the subject
  • Original or new knowledge or theory

Magazine articles

  • Writer is usually a reporter or journalist; an expert writer not expert in subject
  • Written for a wide audience, no special knowledge or terminology is necessary
  • Publication deadlines allow for a little more in-depth writing, but may not have time to develop really complex ideas
  • Faculty frequently use magazine articles as readings for class.

Databases

Tip: Use keyword search then use the magazine filter.

Newpaper articles

  • Writer is usually a reporter or journalist; an expert writer not expert in subject
  • Written for a wide audience, no special knowledge or terminology is necessary
  • Reports on current events and issues, but fast deadlines don't allow for in-depth analysis.
  • Faculty frequently use newspaper articles as readings for class.

Databases

Tip: Use keyword search then use the newspaper filter.