Skip to Main Content

PWR 312 Technical Writing Class Guide

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:

Recommended Databases

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:

  • Academic Search Complete
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
  • Communications & Mass Media Complete
  • OMNIFILE
  • MasterFILE

choose databases

Academic Sources

Archival News Sources

Newspaper and Magazine Articles