Subject Guide to Journalism

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If you need help, don't hesitate to ask at the reference desk, or contact Reference Librarians Linda Moore or Mark Maier.

Try these encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference guides to get started. Click on the link to see the call number.

Dictionaries:

The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

Concise Oxford English Dictionary Ref PE1628 .C68 2004

The Writer's Digest Dictionary of Concise Writing Ref PE1460 .F47 1996

General Writing Guides:

Woe is I: the Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
Ref PE1112 .O28 2003

Reading like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those

Who Want toWrite Them PE1408 .P774 2006

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft PS3561.I483 Z475 2000

Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused, and ConcisePN151 .B76 2002

Journalism Writing Guides:

Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work PN4775 .M84 2000

Introduction to Professional Newswriting: Reporting for the Modern Media
PN4783 .F56 1998

The Associated Press Guide to News Writing PN4783 .C283 2000

The Art of Editing PN4778 .B3 2000

Style Guides:

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly PublishingRef PN147 .G444 1998

The Chicago Manual of Style Ref LB2669 .U54 2003

Careers:

Careers in Journalism [electronic resource]

Careers for Writers and Others Who Have a Way with Words [electronic resource]

Moving to the next step: finding books

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Use MeLCat to request books and audio-visual materials directly from other Michigan libraries over the web. Use OCLC World Cat to search the holdings of over 3000 libraries worldwide in a single search. You will have to use interlibrary loan to obtain copies of these books.

Continuing on: the best places to find articles

Academic OneFile: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

Blackwell: Over 700 journals covering a wide range of subject areas, including international peer-reviewed titles, many published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies.

BookReview Digest: Reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books.

BookReview Digest Plus: Full-text reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books since 1983.

FirstSearch: A collection of over 60 databases from OCLC.

JSTOR: This database provides full-text coverage of more than 64 major language and literature journals. The journals have been digitized from their first volume. Each year another volume of recent issues is added to the collection.

Literature Resource Center: An interdisciplinary approach to literature containing full-text articles from more than 170 literary journals, critical essays, overviews, plot summaries, and author biographies.

Michigan Newspapers: Full text newspapers from Michigan.

New York Times: Full-page images and article images from 1851 to three years before the current date. To locate articles from the past three years, click here.

Oxford Journals Online Connection: Full text of 170 journals across the disciplines of life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences and law.

Project Muse: Full text of leading scholarly journals.

Sage Journals Online: A collection of 400 full-text journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.

Link to the Herbert H. Dow Journalism Program