This guide is designed to teach critical reading and effective writing, skills you will need in all other college classes and throughout your life. This Research Guide is intended primarily to help you find appropriate resources for your writing assignments. You will also find resources to help you with the technical aspects of writing.
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Understanding Rhetoric by
After shaking up writing classrooms at more than 550 colleges, universities, and high schools, Understanding Rhetoric, the comic-style guide to writing, has returned for a third edition Understanding Rhetoric encourages deep engagement with core concepts of writing and rhetoric. With brand-new coverage of fake news, sourcing the source, podcasting as publishing, and support for common writing assignments, the new edition of the one and only composition comic covers what students need to know--and does so with fun and flair.
Information Now, Second Edition by
Today's information environments are complex, and learning how to find relevant and reliable information online, as well as how to fact-check and evaluate that information, is essential. Enter Information Now, a graphic guide that uses humor and sequential art to teach students about information, research, and the web. This second edition of the popular guide incorporates critical analysis of information systems, asking students to think about the biases and problems in how databases and search engines are designed and used. It also addresses how different populations of people are disproportionately affected by the algorithmic biases built into information systems. And it includes revised critical thinking exercises in every chapter. Written and revised by library professionals, Information Now is a fun and insightful tool for high school and college students, writers, and anyone wanting to improve their research skills.
Includes both current and archived international, national, regional, and local news content from more than 14,300 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories (backfiles begin in the 1980s).
Provides access to selected, or in some cases all, content from over 115 South Carolina newspapers and other news sources from around the state. Includes some content from the following PTC area papers: The Edgefield Advertiser, The Index-Journal, The Newberry Observer, Saluda Standard Sentinel.
