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Office Hours (Spring 2021)*:
Tuesday and Thursday from 12:45 PM to 2:45 PM virtually or by appointment. On occasion, times may vary. For complete schedule of office hours, click on the "Schedule Appointment" box on the left side of this guide.
Frequently Used Resources
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Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines.
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JMU Library CatalogFind journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
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WorldCatCatalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide that includes manuscripts written as early as the 1000 B.C., books, audio visual media, and internet source
Current Database Trials and New Resources
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Carrier Library - Where Are the Books?Quick overview of which subject areas are where.
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Rose Library - Where Are the Books?Quick overview of which subject areas are where.
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New York TimesAccess to NYTimes.com, including breaking news, multimedia, international content, reviews, blogs, apps, and more.
To activate a renewable one-year pass, see these instructions.
WRTC Organizations
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CompPileAn inventory of publications in writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis.
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Rhetoric Society of AmericaA broad conception of rhetoric which includes spoken, written, visual and material texts circulating in a wide variety of situations ranging from the public to the private and from face-to-face to digital, within historical and contemporary social, political, and cultural contexts including race, gender, class, sexuality, and ethnicity among others.
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Society for Technical CommunicationThe world's largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication.