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Writing Guides

• Paper Guide
• Revising poetry and prose
• Guide for writing and formatting dialog
• Computing tips
  • Saving a document in Office 2007
• Grading essays
• Copyright
• Merriam-Webster Online  
• Web Authoring

Research Guides

QCC Library home page

• From off campus you need a library barcode to access databases.
• From QCC Campus Computers select Online Databases and then an academic database for most course topics.
• Library Information Desk (Harrington Learning Center): (508) 854-7492

Other Library searches

• C/W MARS network (Central/Western Massachusetts Resource Sharing) provides catalog searching.
  • C/W MARS central Massachusetts library catalogs
  • Worcester Public Library catalog search
• Quinsigamond Community College catalog
• Worcester Public Library home page
• WAULS website (Worcester Area Union List of Serials) at WPI
• Library of Congress web site includes
  Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Mass Online Databases  Find journals and newspapers online with login

Internet keyword search

Internet Catalog search - Find more at Selected Web Sites

• Librarians Internet Index  Annotated subject directory maintained by a team of librarians
• Internet Public Library
• Yahoo Extensive categories and database; portal services

 

Online News

• QCC Library  (from campus) select Reference Databases, then Newsbank or NY Times
  For Remote Access use card number (barcode) for login
• Massachusetts Newspapers Use public library card login to access Massachusetts newspaper archives.
• FactCheck.org  Annenburg Political Fact Check, consumer advocate for voters
• Google News
• National Public Radio Current news, features, programming; audio clips
• NewsLink U.S. and international online newspapers, news services
• Online Newshour (PBS) Current news analysis, archive searching, essays, background reports, online forums

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Updated March 24, 2008
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