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Writing 120D: Reading Cultural Texts

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This guide is designed to help you locate, evaluate, and cite sources for your Writing 120 research assignments. For further assistance with your research, you can:

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General / Interdisciplinary Databases: Find Popular and Scholarly Articles!

If you're exploring research topic ideas, these databases are a great place to start. Try looking at newspaper and magazine articles or encyclopedia entries to get a general sense of the information available on your potential topic and identify aspects of the topic that you'd like to pursue further in your paper. To find in-depth research articles on your topic, look at the "Find Articles: Disciplinary Databases" tab of this guide.

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