Statista is one of the world’s largest statistics portals. Providing you with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources, our focus is firmly based on professional, clear, quick and consistent results. Our customized search query form provides you with a list of statistics, studies and reports relating to your search request within a matter of seconds – kick-starting your research.
Have you ever had difficulty writing a thesis statement? Most of us have floundered through the process of trying to find a focus for a topic.
This guide will give examples of how to narrow a topic by combining terms and using subject headings.
Using someone else’s words or ideas and offering them as your own, without properly citing the original author
“I didn’t know I had to.” “I forgot to cite.” “I don’t know how to cite.”
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Online access to Salem Press's printed reference series. Coverage includes: literary criticism, science, history, primary sources, and careers.
A guide to the 9th edition of the MLA Handbook.
Opposing Viewpoints provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database also contains full text for more than 240 journals. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Gale eBooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.