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English Composition Resource Guide

This guide provides resources to assist in the process of argumentative academic writing, applied to literary texts and culminating in a research paper.

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Resources

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Finding Critical Information

Keyword Search- Use the keyword search option and enter the key words. If you want information on Ernest Hemingway's, "Hills like White Elephants", you could use hemingway, hills, white, elephants. This will search for those words in the title, contents, and subject headings.

Subject Search- After a keyword search, look at the subject headings of your results.  You can click on the subject heading and your search will find items with that subject.  A subject search is using a controlled vocabulary, so there will be more specific results. 

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