Writing 100 (Lanser) Discipline Awareness Assignment

CREDO Reference is a collection of online reference books. 

• The CREDO Reference collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks across a variety of subjects.
• Search over 1,000 book titles with 3 million+ full-text articles.
• It is an excellent resource for locating background information to start your research. 
• Additional features include topic pages, images, and a Mind map for related topics.
• Citations are available in APA, Chicago, Harvard and MLA formats.
• Permalinks are available for all entries/articles.
• Think of CREDO Reference as an academic version of Wikipedia.

Search CREDO strategically.  This video highlights how to search for background information on the history of a discipline (e.g. developmental psychology, mathematics) using phrase searching and Boolean operators. (3:11)