Summer Reading 2008

More how-to… last night I also mentioned the CCC Online Archive, a hugely valuable resource for searching College Composition and Communication, arguably the most important journal in college-level writing studies. Have a look at the site; I think you’ll find it very responsive to searching (look for the box in the lower left). Other features are very cool; for example, Kathi Yancey’s chair’s address/article has links to other CCC articles which cite it, and then in the Works Cited links to those it cites. That enables a reader to quickly click backward and forward in an articles “citation heritage,” so to speak.

I talked to the WIU librarians this morning, and unfortunately they didn’t have much to offer in terms of citation indices in the WIU databases; they gave me a couple leads I’ll follow up and share if they are worth it.

However, Google Scholar does a pretty good job. Try this search for “the idea of a writing center.” It’s the first result in the list, and you’ll note “Cited by 107″ is a link, too. That will give you a list of articles which cite North’s piece. To address the recent articles problem we talked about last nigth, you can use the Advanced Search to limit by date. For example, when I limited the search to articles from 2006-, 31 hits remain.

Again, I’d love to hear your feedback about using CCCOA or citation indices.

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