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IS 1811: Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

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Research Strategies

Background Information

Beyond Google and web searching...

• Encyclopedia Americana/Grolier Multimedia Online or Encyclopedia Britannica: Full-text online.
• Oxford Reference Online
• AccessScience - Search McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online

QuickFIND - Multi-database Search for Articles & Books

Start with QuickFIND multi-database search to retrieve results from 11 databases (including the library catalog & Worldcat for books) on your topic with one search. There are 3 ways to search:

1. Library homepage,
2. Databases by Subject categories (Environmental),
3. Advanced.

Finding Books

Useful Web Sites

Suggested sources for background information on environmental issues:

• Environmental Sustainability Index . See country profiles.
• Global Environmental Outlook. United Nations Environment Programme.
  
• World Resources Report: report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. See also their Country Profiles.
• State of the World's Forests

Finding Articles

• Gale PowerSearch: Database of abstracts and full text articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals
• LEXIS-NEXIS Academic: News articles and magazines. Includes foreign language news, choose Guided News tab, Non-English Language News.
• ScienceDirect - Full text of science journals.
• Internet Public Library Newspapers: sometimes searching free local online newspapers will lead to useful articles.
• More Databases & Electronic Resources ...

Only Finding a Citation? Getting the Full Text

• Is the journal online or here in the library? Use FullTextFinder to link to full articles or retrieval options within database results or search our Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers list
• Visit another library: Search WorldCat to find one
• Request delivery from another library: Interlibrary Loan.

WPI's Journal, Magazine, Newspaper Search

To find sources such as New York Times, Nature, the Lancet and other magazines print or online that the library subscribes to, search by source title within our Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers list.

Give Credit! Cite Your Sources

Try RefWorks, if you wish to create a database of your personal references, which can be output into MLA format for your bibliography.

MLA: Write It, Cite It (PPT) | Citing in the Disciplines | Sample Research Paper with MLA format | More citation resources

Searching for video or multimedia clips? Images? Try AOL's Video Search or Google's Image Search.

International Government Information & Environmental Web Sites

Sometimes governmental agencies will provide information on environmental issues or regulations or even statistics. Use Governments on the WWW to track down agencies for your country.

Bibliography of Supplemental Reading

• Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. [GEN PS3551 B2 Z463 1990]
• Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. [GEN SB959 C3]
• Carson, Rachel. Sea Around Us. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. [GEN GC21 C3 1961]
• Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. [GEN QH92 C3 1952]
• Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: HarperPerennial, 1988. [GEN QH81 D56 1985]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature and other writings. Boston: Shambhala, 2003. [GEN PS1603 T86 2003]
• Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. New York: Henry Holt, 1988. [GEN PS3555 R42 T73 1988]
• Faulkner, William. Go Down Moses (Bear), p. 183-315. New York: Random House, 1942. [GEN PS3511 A86 G6 1942]
• Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. [GEN GF41 G67 1992]
• Hamilton-Patterson, James. The Great Deep. New York: Random House, 1992. [GEN GC26 H36 1992]
• Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea. New York: Caedmon, 1976. [GEN PS3515 E37 O4]
• Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Anchor Books, 1997. [GEN CT9971 M38 K73 1997]
• London, Jack. Call of the Wild. New York: Viking Press, 1982. [GEN PS3523 O46 A6 1982b]
• London, Jack. The Sea Wolf. New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. [GEN PS3523 O46 S4 1961]
• London, Jack. White Fang. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. [GEN PS3523 O46 W4 1906]
• Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. [GEN QH84.1 L67 1986]
• Lopez, Barry. Crossing the Open Ground.
• Marx, Wesley. The Frail Ocean. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. [GEN GC1018 M3]
• Melville, Herman. Moby Dick [electronic book]. [PS2384 .M6 1998eb]
• McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989. [GEN GF75 M38 1989]
• Muir, John. The Yosemite. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962. [GEN F868 Y6 M8]
• Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. online
• Nelson, Richard. The Island Within. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. [GEN GN21 N45 A3 1991]
• Thoreau, Henry. Walden or Life in the Woods. New York: Rinehart, 1948. [GEN PS3048 A1 1948]
• Thoreau, Henry. Walking and Where I lived and what I lived for.
• Wilson, E.O. Biophilia. Washington DC: Island Press, 1993. [GEN GF21 B56 1993]
• Wilson, E.O. Future of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. [GEN QH75 W535 2002]

Topics of Environmental Concern

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