How to use this guide
Locate the page denoted by your FYRS professor's name. This main page provides resources for all FYRS sections and the course pages feature resources that relate to your specific course content.
Lateral Reading -- Evaluating Your Sources
Evaluating Sources & Developing Research Questions/Topics
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Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals
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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Use this interactive page from NC State Libraries to see the different sections of a scholarly article defined.
Gather Background Text
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Use this box to search hundreds of full-text reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
Library catalog: find books, articles, videos
Scholarly article search
Need more options? Library Databases A-Z
Need a specific journal? Journals A-Z
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)--Transy Library
If we do not have an item, we may be able to borrow it from another library.
News Resources
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WSJ.com (The Wall Street Journal)
Get full access to the business newspaper of record, The Wall Street Journal, website using your Transy.edu email address. Create your personal account at http://wsj.com/transy, then go to your email to verify.
Citation Information
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"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, Purdue U Writing Lab, 2018.This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
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MLA Citation TemplateUse this interactive template to create works-cited-list entries in MLA style.
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MLA Handbook: Quick Style GuideUse this to get a list of all the elements that need to be included in a MLA citation.