This document provides guidance on finding reliable sources for academic writing. It discusses print and electronic sources such as books, journals, newspapers, and websites. It recommends searching library catalogs and databases, as well as specific academic websites and journals. Non-academic websites and sources found through basic Google searches are not recommended. The document outlines activities for students to explore the table of contents of journals and archive articles of interest from recommended sources.

1. ACADEMIC WRITING:
LOOKING FOR SOURCES
Elba Méndez García

2. Looking for (reliable) sources
Print sources
 Books
 Periodicals (journals,
magazines,
newsletters,
newspapers)
 Proceedings and
papers (of/at
meetings and
symposia)
 Dissertations and
theses
Electronic media
 Periodicals (journals,
magazines,
newsletters,
newspapers)
 Research reports
 Proceedings and
papers (of/at
meetings and
symposia)

3. Print Sources: Books
A Basic Bibliography for Language Teacher
Educators:
The Teacher Trainer journal
 http://www.tttjournal.co.uk/index.php?page=ba
ck_articles
 Activity 1: Team up by letters A-Z. Go through
the Table of Contents of all available books in
the library.

4. Looking for (reliable) sources on
line
 DON’Ts (X)
 Wikipedia
 Non-academic web
sites
 Google at random
 DOs (√)
 Library searches
 Google Académico
 University web sites
 Organization web
sites
 Recommended
journals and
archives

5. Recommended journals and
archives
Free journals and archives
 Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
 http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/1409
 The Internet TESL Journal
 http://iteslj.org/Articles/
 English Teaching Forum Online
 http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-
journal.html
 MEXTESOL Journal
 http://www.mextesol.org.mx/
 TESOL Connections
 http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=154&DID=162
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 Virtual libraries: c) applied linguistics / TESOL - journals &
online articles
 http://www.englishstudydirect.com/OSAC/ebookappling7.ht
m
 The Reading Matrix
 http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html
 Language Learning and Technology
 http://llt.msu.edu/
 Current Issues in Education
 http://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu
Pay for access journals
 TESOL Quarterly Online, TESOL Journal and
Essential Teacher
 http://www.tesol.org/
 The Reading Teacher
 http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/Journ
als/RT.aspx
 The Modern Language Journal
 http://mlj.miis.edu/
 Language Teaching Research
 http://ltr.sagepub.com/
 ELT Journal
 http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/
 Journal of Transformative Education
 http://jtd.sagepub.com/

6. Recommended journals and
archives
 The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/Articles/
 English Teaching Forum Online
http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/for
um-journal.html
 MEXTESOL Journal
http://www.mextesol.org.mx/

7. Recommended journals and
archives
 Activity 2: Team up. Bring the Table of
Contents from a past issue of the journals. You
should have 4 Tables of Contents, 2 issues of
each journal.
 English Teaching Forum Online
http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/for
um-journal.html
 MEXTESOL Journal
http://www.mextesol.org.mx/

8. Recommended journals and
archives
 Activity 3: Work individually but help each
other. Save 2 articles that relate to something
of your own interest – copy and paste onto a
Word document.
 The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/Articles/