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Expository Writing Program

If you have any questions or comments about this guide, please contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature, Writing Seminars, and Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

She is available to answer specific and general questions via email, instant message, or telephone. Leigh Anne is also happy to teach library instruction sessions for specific classes and help students and faculty during one on one reasearch consultations. Email for an appointment. 

  Get Started Researching & Writing

Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Begin Researching
Brainstorming can help you get started.

How to Search
Tips on how to more effectively search google, the catalog, databases ... everything! 

Evaluate Your Resources
Not every source is a good one. What is a good source? How can you tell?

Citing Sources
Give credit where credit is due. What should I cite and how?

Writing Center Links
A great place to go for more help!

  Search the Catalog

You can search the MSE Library's catalog for books on your subject.

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  General Research Databases

General or multidisciplinary databases like the ones listed below will index several hundred (sometimes thousand) journals across many subject areas. Because of their broad coverage, they are often good places to begin your research or to find a few relevant articles. For more comprehensive journal coverage of a particular subject, use a subject-specific database.

This link opens a new window - Info About Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About JSTOR Article Locator JSTOR Article Locator  (All US JHU)
  Course Pages
   Spring 2008
060.114 License to Fool (David Hershinow)
   Fall 2007
060.113 License to Fool (David Hershinow) 
   Spring 2007

060.113 Attacking Art (Jannette Vusich) 

060.113.22 Teenagers and Contemporary Culture (Naomi Fry) 

   Fall 2006

060.113.03 Attacking Art (Jannette Vusich) 

060.113.08 Race and Sexuality in Othello (Suzanne Jung) 

060.113.22 Teenagers and Contemporary Culture (Naomi Fry) 

   Spring 2006
060.114.12 Sex, Citizenship, and the State (Jonathan Yeh) - 
   Fall 2005

060.113.06 Power and Resistance (Benjamin Myers) 

060.113.08 Understanding Globalization (Viplav Saini) 

060.113.10 Immigration and the Economy (Kevin Thom) 

060.113.11 Analyzing New Jack Cinema (Claire Jarvis) 

060.113.13 Sex, Citizenship, and the State (Jonathan Yeh) 

060.113.18 Reading Rap (Kadeshia Matthews) 

060.113.22 Education and the New Immigrants (Bedelia Richards) 

   Summer 2005

060.105.06 Writing about Literature (Benjamin Myers) 

   Spring 2005

060.114.05 Analyzing Short Fiction (Erica Burleigh) 

060.114.06 Free Will and Determinism (Bryan Conn) 

060.114.08 Sensationalism (Matt Taylor) 

060.114.09 Violence and Aesthetics (Meredith Evans) 

060.114.11 Religion in American Culture (Kate Moran) 



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