Southeastern Louisiana University

Technical Writing Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

The Cutting Edge: An Encyclopedia of Advanced Technologies
--Reference Stacks-- T 9 .C96
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
--Reference Stacks-- PN 172 .E52
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age
--Reference Stacks-- PN 172 .E53
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology
--Reference Stacks-- T 15 .E53; also available online
Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
--online-- netLibrary e-book

Handbooks

The Elements of Style
--Ready Reference-- PE 1408 .S772
How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper
--Reference Stacks-- T 11 .D33; also available online
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
--online-- netLibrary e-book
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
--Reference Stacks-- QA 276.3 .T83

Dictionaries

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
--online-- netLibrary e-book
The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality
--Reference Stacks-- QA 76.76 .I59 C675
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
--Reference Stacks-- PN 41 .C83
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
--Ready Reference-- Q 123 .M15 1994

Style Manuals

The AMA style Guide for Business Writing
--online-- netLibrary e-book
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
--Ready Reference-- LB 2369 .G53
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
--Ready Reference-- BF 76.7 .P83
APA Style Guide to Electronic References, 2007
--Ready Reference-- PN171. F56 .A63 2007; also available online
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
--Ready Reference-- T 11 .S386

Bibliographies

MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
--3rd Floor Bound Serials and Reference Room Stacks-- P 1 .M65

Biographies

Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
--Reference Stacks-- T 39 .B49
Literature Resource Center-- Provides full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of the work of more than 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.

ACM Digital Library-- Indexes, abstracts, reviews, and provides the full-text of articles published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM-affiliated organization periodicals and conference proceedings.

Business Source Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of articles from magazines and scholarly journals, industrial/technological periodicals, company and industry profiles, country economic data, accounting standards, encyclopedic dictionaries and handbooks.

Communication Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts international journal articles, reports, and books in the fields of general communication, mass communication, small group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech, and television.

Communication and Mass Media Complete-- Indexes and abstracts and selected full-text articles from the Mass Media Articles Index™ (MMAI) produced by Penn State University and CommSearch™, produced by the National Communication Association (NCA).

JSTOR-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies.

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic-- Provides full-text of: U.S. and international newspapers; business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company financial reports and profiles; legal news and reviews; state and federal case law; state, U.S., Canadian, Commonwealth and E.U. codes and regulations; patents; medical news and journals; state and country profiles; biographies and quotations; polls and surveys and a world almanac.

Literature Resource Center-- Provides full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of the work of more than 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts articles from scholarly journals, books and dissertations from the field of linguistics.

MAS Ultra-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text articles from popular magazines, biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets, and reference books and images, maps and flags from archives and photo collections.

MLA International Bibliography-- Indexes articles from literary and language journals, books essay collections, conference proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Provides links to small selection of full-text articles.

Oxford English Dictionary-- Provides full-text definitions, pronunciations, etymology, timeline and quotations for words in current usage as well as old words.

Project Muse-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.

ProQuest Research Library-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of popular and scholarly periodicals from many disciplines.

Sociological Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts articles from scholarly journals covering sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology, and urban studies.

Internet Sites

Association of Business Communication -- The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is an international organization committed to fostering excellence in business communication scholarship, research, education, and practice.

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing -- Extensive website of help for technical writing teachers. Requires users to set up free login and password.

The Elements of Style (Strunk and White) -- The Elements of Style is a helpful on-line (and print) book for all writers.

Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) -- At Imperial College of London Department of Computer Science. Extensive dictionary of computer-related terms.

International Association of Business Communicators -- Founded in 1970, The International Association of Business Communicators provides a professional network of more than 13,000 business communication professionals in over 60 countries. Provides resources for technical writers.

Society for Technical Communication -- STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Has 25,000 members.

Rhetoric (Aristotle) -- The electronic text of Aristotle's book on rhetoric in translation. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts.