Research sites for Composition
Internet sites -- Choose web sites with care. Look for quality web sites with reliable information. Anyone can say anything on the Web. As evidence, look here. The sites below should help you find some of the more reliable information on the Internet.
The Internet Public Library -- http://www.ipl.org/ Your one-stop place to check out more than 2,200 periodicals, more than 900 prominent association home pages, and newspapers from every continent.
Internet Services List -- http://spectracom.com/islist/ Listing of web pages for a variety of topics from A-W.
Britannica Internet Guide -- http://www.ebig.com Database of Internet sites. You can do a general search or look under categories such as Art and Literature, Education, History, News and Current Events, Social Science, Computers and the Internet, and Sports and Diversions.
About.com -- http://www.about.com This used to be called The Mining Company. It's a helpful search engine because it has a staff of people (called guides) who regularly compile the best web sites and web articles on specific topics.
Northern Light -- http://www.northernlight.com In addition to being a very comprehensive search engine, Northern Light has the added advantage of breaking down your topic into subtopics for you and itemizing the web sites under the appropriate subtopics.
Time magazine -- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time
The Washington Post -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The New York Times -- http://www.nytimes.com
The Kansas City Star -- http://www.kcstar.com
Yahoo! -- http://www.yahoo.com While this search engine is not as comprehensive as some of the others, it does tend to organize the World Wide Web sites better than the others.
Library resources
Infotrac -- http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/jcl_jccc
The JCCC Library Reference Shelf -- http://gold.johnco.cc.ks.us/readyref/
The JCCC Library Catalog -- http://gold.johnco.cc.ks.us/webcat/
The JCCC Library Home Page -- http://gold.johnco.cc.ks.us/