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Writing About Writing (WAW) for WRI 1/10

Library resources and perspectives for Writing about Writing (WAW)

Getting to Full-Text

CompPile includes citations for journal articles, books chapters, interviews, doctoral dissertations and more.  Some of these citations have links to full text links but many do not nor does CompPile include the UC-eLinks for locating full-text.

View this screenshot for a sample of the types of resources you might find in CompPile, or visit this sample set of search results.

screenshot from CompPile results

Recommendations for Locating Full-Text:

If the item is a journal article, paste the article title into Google Scholar.

If the item is a book or book chapter, paste the book title into UC Library Search.

See the tabs above for more information on using Google Scholar and UC Library Search. 

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  1. Paste the title of this article into Google Scholar.  Writing Beyond the Page: Reflective Essay as Box Composition
  2. Search.
  3. Click on the title or link to the right of the article to see if you can obtain full-text.
  4. Ensure that you are connected to the VPN.

 

This video also covers how you can find a specific article in Google Scholar of Melvyl.  (1:59)

Use UC Library Search, the library's catalog, to search for book titles you have found in CompPile.

Get it at UC connects you from a source citation to the resource.

You will be taken to UC Library Search where you can navigate to the full-text of the source OR initiate a request for the source through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

The Get it at UC button will appear in many library databases. Use it to more easily locate or request the resources you need!

Get It At UC button