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RPCC Library Online Resources

CQ Researcher Plus Archive (1923 - Present): In–depth, non–biased full text reports on topics and issues in the news.
Films On Demand: Academic, Career and Technical, and Archival and Newsreel film collections across all disciplines.
- Introduction to Literature
- American Literature
- British & Irish Literature
- World Literature
- Drama & Theater
- Language, Folklore & the Arts
- Elements of Language: Grammar, usage; Writing & composition; etc.
- Speech & Communication: Includes business and interpersonal communication.
Gale Literature: Search across Gales' Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne's Author Series.
JSTOR - The Scholarly Archive: Articles from scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, humanities, business, etc.
LearningExpress PrepSTEP: Search Core English Skills for help with reading, writing, & grammar. Go to How to Access RPCC Library Resources and select LearningExpress PrepSTEP for more
Literary Reference Center Plus: Full-text information on authors and literature from journals, reference books, and more, plus over 7400 classic novels.
OED: Oxford English Dictionary: A comprehensive dictionary of over 500,000 English language words.
Salem Press: Find full-text reference sources in Literature

KnightCite Citation Service for MLA 9th edition, from The Hekman Library at Calvin College is a handy fill-in-the-blank tool for creating citations for your Works Cited lists.
MLA Style Center (9th ed)
- Free chapter from the Handbook: Introduction to Formatting Your Research Project
OWL: Online Writing Lab, from Purdue University, offers resources to help with conducting research, writing, style manuals, grammar, and more.
- Purdue OWL: MLA Style also includes Citation Machine tool.
UW-Madison Writer's Handbook provides advice on writing process and structure, grammar and punctuation, and more

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, “contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.”
Poets.org, from the Academy of American Poets, offers numerous resources on classic and contemporary poetry, poems searchable by title or poet, audio and video resources, interviews, bios, essays, and more.
Shakespeare's Works from Folger Shakespeare Library: A comprehensive digital collection of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry with an interactive interface.
The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development, from Bartleby.com, offers “a selection of 23 short stories from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Twentieth Century.”
Voices and Visions, a series of videos from Annenberg Learner on thirteen American poets.