✨ Welcome to Your Research & Writing Guide for ENG 110
Research in ENG 110 is more than just finding sources—it’s about understanding ideas and using them to shape your own. This guide will help you think critically, use sources effectively, and build stronger, more informed writing.
Use it anytime you need support with reading, researching, or incorporating evidence into your work.
Database Search Tips
Databases Best for English
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 230 more. Furthermore, this database includes over 3,000 author profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Contains over 1,200 full-text journals (including over 700 not in Academic Search Complete) on all aspects of the humanities related to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text, complete journal collection with over 1,300 titles covering a multitude of subjects, including history, economics, religion, philosophy, classics, language, music, art, sociology, political science, conservation, plant science, cell biology, and zoology
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Consists of citations and bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in more than 4,400 journals and series from 1926-present.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to over 560 journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences disciplines.
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Discover@MSU Search Box
Using JSTOR Video
Google Scholar
Background Databases
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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Contains biographical information, overviews, literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all genres and disciplines.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window Lists over 4,400 currently indexed periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.
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Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over a half million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
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Oxford Reference Online (1 user limit) This link opens in a new window Provides over 225 fully-indexed, cross-searchable subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
