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Subject Guide for Writing on Science and Society

Abstracts and Indexes | Books | Encyclopedias | Bibliographic Management Tool

Many students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science fulfill their upper-division writing requirement by enrolling in WRTG 3030 : Writing on Science and Society. In this course, students examine ethical and social issues that arise within the decision-making processes associated with science and technology. The class focuses on critical thinking, analytical writing, and oral presentation. Taught as a writing workshop, the course emphasizes effective communication with both professional and nontechnical audiences. This page provides potential resources for students enrolled in WRTG 3030.

The class is taught in a variety of ways, however, and it should be noted that the following resources are only a beginning point and additional subject guides should be consulted.

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Abstracts and Indexes

These are databases that provide citations and full-text to articles and newspapers, magazines, and journals.

General

CU Academic Search Premier

Provides citations and full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily. Coverage: varies.

 

CU Expanded Academic ASAP

An interdisciplinary database that contains citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text articles from general interest magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.
Coverage: 1980 - present.

 

CU InfoTrac OneFile
Source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Includes full-text.
Coverage: 1980 - present.

 

CU ProQuest Newsstand

Databases containing articles from newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals. Coverage: varies

 

Technical and Scientific

 

CU Engineering Village 2--Compendex and INSPEC

Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature. Contains references and abstracts to engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Includes links to full text when available. Coverage: 1884 - present. INSPEC is a bibliographic database that indexes physics, astronomy and astrophysics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. The database contains full-text links when available. Coverage: 1898 - present.

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CU Web of Science

Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,700 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 164 disciplines. Coverage: 1965 - present.

Video Tutorial: "Web of Science: An Overview"

Society, Public Policy and Opinion

CU Congressional Research Service Reports

Online source for real-time legislative, regulatory, and government information services.

CU CQ Electronic Library
Congressional Quarterly Researcher and Congressional Quarterly Weekly.

CU Environmental Issues & Policy Index

Use this database to research the both the underlying science and possible policy considerations and responses. Coverage: Varies.

CU Polling the Nations
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Coverage: 1986 - present.

CU Social Sciences Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts and some full text of articles in the social sciences.
Full text from 1994 - present. Abstracts from 1984 - present.

CU Sociological Abstracts

Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Coverage : 1963 - present.

Books

Links to online books require on-campus or VPN access.

Online

 

CU Knovel Library --Combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies. Over 700 titles are available through Knovel.

 

CU MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication

 

Print

 

Technical Writing

 

Technology and Society

 

Science and Society

 

Encyclopedias

Links to online encyclopedias on-campus or VPN access.

Online

 

CU Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology

 

CU Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online

 

CU Encyclopedia of Bioethics

 

CU Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics

 

CU Issues and Trends in Technology and Human Interaction

 

CU Science and Its Times

 

CU Science in Dispute, vol. 1

 

CU Science in Dispute, vol. 2

 

CU Science in Dispute, vol. 3

 

Print

 

Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia

 

Social Issues in Science and Technology: An Encyclopedia

Bibliographic Management Tool

CU Refworks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

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