Research Guides
Composition, Writing & Rhetoric: Articles
An introduction to multidisciplinary research resources for English composition and writing courses
Find Articles
Find scholarly, news, or magazine articles using the following databases.
If you are searching from off campus, you'll be prompted to login with your UWNetID before entering the database.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Citation index for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and books in all disciplines. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowScholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
See help for accessing articles from off-campus through Google Scholar.
Finding Multiple Viewpoints
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Reports, summaries, and pro/con views on a range of current issues,1923-present. - Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
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Overview of contemporary social issues with relevant articles, videos, opposing views, and more
News Articles
- New York Times digital editionRegister through the UW for a free personal account to NYTimes.com (basic digital access), including visualizations, podcasts, and teaching & learning content for faculty.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window
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Regional, national, and international newspapers, 1980's-present. - US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Washington State, national & regional newspapers, 1980 - present
- UW Libraries News GuideProvides links to several additional resources for finding information in the news.
Articles by Research Area
Depending on your topic, you may need to search for articles in discipline-specific databases. Try starting in one of the databases below. For more databases by discipline, check out our Research Guides.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from worldwide periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. - ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing of articles and documents in education and related fields. - America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Contains literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
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