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ENG 101 English Composition (Colin Enriquez)

Useful resources for researching topics for your ENG 101 papers

Researching Current Issues

Here are two of many great resources to help get you started.

Locating Scholarly Articles

This database features a box you can check to limit your search to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.

 By utilizing the "Choose databases" feature located after "Searching: Academic Search Complete", you can search both this database and other EBSCOhost databases, such as Communication & Mass Media Complete at the same time.

Scholarly Databases & e-Books

These databases contain scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.

NYTimes.com

Access to NYTimes.com provides:

  • Tools to stay informed on the latest in world and national news, business, the arts, technology, travel, opinion, science, medicine and more
  • Breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features
  • **Access requires logging in with a Pepperdine email on the NY Times homepage. Find step-by-step log-in instructions on the access guide to log in. **

Researching Newspapers and Current Issues

Need to check facts?

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