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Assignment | Rhetorical Criticism Project (Whalen): Finding Information

Honors Speech | Prof. Sara Whalen (Fall 2024)

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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
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Full-text, balanced, comprehensive journalistic reports and analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.
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Full-text from over 500 journals for communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields such as media studies, linguistics, and rhetoric.
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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic overviews as well as collects a variety of sources, including statistics, reference materials, journal articles, news articles, images, and audio broadcasts.

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Limited historical news reports, documentaries, instructional materials, and full-length videos on various topics.