ENG 4950: Senior Seminar
Revised 10/2018
Selected Web Sites on Liberal Education, Writing, the Research Process, and Resume Preparation
- American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE) http://www.aale.org
- Association of American Colleges and Universities, “Publications and Research” and “Browse Research Hubs” http://www.aacu.org/
- Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/
- Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont College http://www.westmont.edu/institute/
- Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor http://stats.bls.gov/oco
- The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University (OWL) (resources include cover letters, resumes, and style guides) http://owl.english.purdue.edu
- Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas (handouts on composition, resumes, cover letters, etc.) http://uwc.utexas.edu/handout
- University of Waterloo (Canada), Centre for Teaching Excellence (links under “ePortfolio resources”) http://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/resources/integrative-learning/eportfolios
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Guide to Grammar and Writing (sponsored by the Capital Community College
Foundation, Hartford, CT) http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
Revised 07/2019
Selected Titles in the Madonna University Library on Liberal Education, Writing, the Research Process, and Resume Preparation
Liberal Education:
HD8038
U5 K56 1995
The ‘True Professional Ideal’ in America: A History/ Bruce A. Kimball. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.
LA227.4
B478 2006
What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? : Classroom
Politics and Bias in Higher Education/
Michael Berube. NY: Norton, 2006.
LB14.7
D39 2006
Wonderlust: Ruminations on Liberal Education/ Michael Davis. South
Bend: St
Augustine’s Press, 2006.
LB2324
B46 2013
Is College Worth It? / William J. Bennett. Nashville: Thos. Nelson, 2013.
LC1011
H257 2001
Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an
Impoverished Age/ Victor Hanson et
al. Wilmington,
ISI Books, 2001.
LC1011
K56 1995
Orators & Philosophers: A History of the Idea of
Liberal Education/ Bruce A. Kimball. New York: College Board,
1995.
LC1011
R63 2010
Why Choose the Liberal Arts?/ Mark William Roche. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Pr.,
2010.
LC1011
R75 2014
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters/ Michael S. Roth. New Haven: Yale UP, 2014.
LC1011
S33 2000
A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning/ James V. Schall. Wilmington, Del:
ISI Books, 2000.
LC1011
S78 2003
A Student’s Guide to the Liberal Arts/ ed. Wilburn T. Stancil. Kansas, Mo.: Rockhurst UP,
2003.
LC1023
L52 2005
Liberal Arts Colleges and Liberal Arts Education: New
Evidence on Impacts/ Ernest T.
Pascarella. San Francisco: Wiley, 2005.
LC1023
W55 2003
The Case for Classical Christian Education/ Douglas Wilson. Wheaton, Ill:
Crossway, 2003.
NX180
S6 P657 2015
Cultural Renewal: Restoring the Liberal and Fine Arts/ Arthur Pontynen. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2015.
PN35
G786
The Great Conversation: the Substance of a Liberal
Education/ Robert M. Hutchins. Chicago: Britannica,
1952.
Writing:
P211
F46 2014
Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and
Purpose/ Nicole Fenton/Kate Kiefer
Lee. San Francisco: Peachpit Press, 2014.
Electronic Resource
The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academy Essay/ Scott F. Crider. Wilmington: ISI Books, 2005.
Electronic Resource
Writing up your university assignments and research projects a practical handbook/ Neil Murray/Geraldine Hughes. New York: Open University Press, 2008
PE1421
P56 2014
The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person’s Guide to
Writing in the 21st Century/
Steven Pinker. New York: Viking, 2014.
Electronic
Resource
The Wiley Guide to Writing Essays about Literature/ Paul Headrick. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Research:
Electronic
Resource
How to Research/Loraine
Blaxter et al. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
LB2369
W57 2009
The Undergraduate Research Handbook/ Gina Wisker. New York: Macmillan, 2009
Electronic
Resource
53 Interesting Ways to Communicate Your Research/ Irenee Daly et al. Suffolk: P&H, 2014.
Electronic
Resource
The Craft of Research/ Wayne Booth et al. Chicago: U of Chicago Pr., 2008.
Resumes:
HF5383
F32 2005
The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book/ Michael J. Farr. Indianapolis: JIST, 2005.
HF5383
H53 2008
The Resume Handbook: How to Write Outstanding Resumes
& Cover Letters for Every Situation/
Arthur D. Rosenberg. Avon: Adams Media, 2008.
HF5383
H284 2008
Top Notch Executive Resumes/ Katherine Hansen. Franklin Lakes: Career Press,
2008.
Electronic Resource
Killer Cover Letters and Resumes: WetFeet Insider
Guide/ WetFeet (Firm). San Francisco:
WetFeet, 2008.
Revised 06/2017
Databases provided by the Madonna Library. When off-campus these databases may be accessed by password found in MY Portal
- Humanities Full Text (Ebscohost)
- Education Full Text (Ebscohost)
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost)
- ProQuest (ProQuest)
- Literature Resource Center (Gale)
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