Writing Tools for Anthropology Students

This page provides quick access to internet sites that may be of use to University of Alabama anthropology students in developing writing assignments. Students may also wish to consult Guide to Library Research in Anthropology at the University of Alabama. While some sites are accessible only to students and faculty of the University of Alabama, many others are available to one and all.

Highly recommended term paper sites include:

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Resources Below Compiled by Michael Dean Murphy

Bibliographic Sites

Articles

  • Anthropological Index Online The Royal Anthropological Institute's excellent source for anthropology bibliography goes back to the late 1950's. Tip: When searching for the works of specific authors, separate author's last name and first initial with "and" (e.g., "Bindon and J" for James Bindon)
  • Anthropological Literature (off campus link) Extensive bibliographic database of Harvard's Tozzer Library.
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (on campus) (off campus link)
  • ingenta This commercial site allows you to search (for free) the tables of content of over 25,000 serials.
  • ISI Web of Science (on campus link) / ISI Web of Science (off campus link) Allows for simultaneous search of SSCI, SCI and H&ACI. Excellent resource
  • American Anthropologist Journal Archive. Organized by Dr. Robert Borofsky.
  • The UA Libraries Web Database site is an excellent collection of electronic resources. Among many other sites, the Database includes
    • Infotrac This database contains over 3.5 million articles from 1980 to the present. In many cases you are provided with the complete text (or at least an abstract) of the article. These texts can be printed or e-mailed directly to your account.
    • EBSCO (find in UA Libraries Web Database) Links to Academic Search which "Provides abstracts and indexing for 3,000 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals." This site also includes a link to ERIC, the education database.
    • JSTOR This site gives direct access to the full texts of a wide range of academic journals. Included are suchimportant anthropology journals as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Ethos, Man, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
  • The following databases can only be accessed from computers located in University of Alabama Libraries
    • Anthropological Bibliography covers books and monographs from the 1860s to the 1960s. It too may be accessed only from selected terminals in the Information Center of Gorgas Library.
  • The Alabama Virtual Library is a great resource for accessing many of the best electronic databases from off-campus computers. To gain AVL privileges one need only sign-up at our local public library.
  • CSAC Anthropological Bibliography Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
  • Annual Reviews Online includes tables of content for the Annual Review of Anthropology, a source for useful, state-of-the-art essays on a wide variety of anthropological topics.
  • Oxford Union List of Periodicals of Interest to Social Anthropologists (compiled by David Zeitlyn 2nd edition edited by Mike Morris)
  • Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research

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Anthropological Style Guides

Writing Guides

Writing Tools

The Writing Center of the University of Alabama

The Writing Center can provide the best service if students bring a writing sample of previous work or an early draft of an assignment in progress. Instructor's comments on student's writing will also be helpful.

The Writing Center does not proofread papers, discuss grades, discuss the quality of a student's instructor or assignments, do the writing or thinking for the student, or take responsibility for the content of the papers.

The Writing Center is located at 125 Morgan Hall, may be reached at 348-5049 and is generally open at the following times:

For more information please contact Carol Howell