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This page is designed to help you with your glossary assignment, for which a variety of sources will help you to define your terms.
To better understand a word, it is helpful to see it in use through different time periods. For this assignment, it will be helpful to find a variety of sources so that you can understand the way that a word is used in different contexts and for different audiences.
To do this, we can find a variety of different source types: academic (peer-reviewed articles), newspaper articles, and magazine/trade articles. For more information, see the Source Type page.
To understand the depth of dictionary definitions, let's explore the Oxford English Dictionary:
One thing that will help you to search for these resources is the "Choose Databases" tool. Use this to search through many databases at once including: