LibGuides: CdeBaca: Fall '21: Your Assignment Resources!

ENGL 1301 Prospective Research & Advocacy Topics

Prospective Research & Advocacy Topics

Racial justice
- Black Lives Matter
- Defund the police
- Defund ICE
- Representation - film, business, your career
Education
- Education access and equity
- Homeschool
- Digital equity
- College cost/value
Immigration
- DACA
- Family separation/Zero tolerance policy
- Defund ICE
- Immigration bans
COVID
- Impact on specific communities
- Impact on economy
- Health care access
- Impact on small businesses, bars/restaurants/venues, music
- Impact on housing/homelessness
Local community
- Gentrification
- Transportation
- Taxes
- Services
- Homelessness
Music, Arts, Film, Culture
- Appropriation
- Representation
- Health Care Access
Animals, Animal Rights, Animal Treatment

Reference Article Databases

Below is a list of ACC Library magazine, journal, and newspaper databases where you may find articles, eBooks, and streaming video in support of your ENGL 1301/INRW research assignments. These are just suggestions and this list is not a full list of all of the databases ACC Libraries subscribes to. You may find a full list of ACC Library databases on the A-Z List of Databases page.

Credo Reference
Online collection of general and subject-specific reference works on all major topic areas.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Includes over 25,000 articles covering an array of topics.
Gale eBooks
Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.
Oxford Art Online

Online art collection that includes thousands of images and articles on artists, eras, and movements.
Oxford Reference

Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

ENGL 1301 Research Logs

Research Logs

Research Log I: Use this log to organize your background research and narrow down your topic

Research Log II: Use this log to organize your research topic/s and brainstorm key concepts and keyword research terms

Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Article Database Suggestions

Below is a list of ACC Library magazine, journal, and newspaper databases where you may find resources in support of your ENGL 1301/INRW research assignments. These are just suggestions and this list is not a full list of all of the databases ACC Libraries subscribes to. You may find a full list of ACC Library databases on the A-Z List of Databases page.

List of all ACC Library Databases

Academic Search Complete
Scholarly articles, news, and research on topics in most subject areas.
Bloom's Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Consumer Health Complete
CQ Researcher
Gale in Context: World History
Articles, essays, and primary documents about world history.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Contains up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Humanities Full Text
Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.
JSTOR

Contains more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources.
LGBTQ+ Source

Provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Literary Reference Source

Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Gale Literature Criticism
Includes both Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism -- extensive compilation of literary commentary -- and Gale's Short Story Criticism -- thousands of essays on the critical response to short story writers
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Articles on topics in psychiatry, psychology, and observational and experimental methods.
SocINDEX with Full Text

Full-text, peer-reviewed sociology journals covering gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work. It also includes thousands of author profiles and a sociological thesaurus.
TOPICsearch

Information on hot topics from newspapers, periodicals, and government sources.