Pathfinder - ELC Orientation
Course
This pathfinder
is intended to guide ELC Orientation students to resources needed to answer
their reference questions. The
resources listed within this guide are found in the University of Bahrain
Library (Sakhir) or on the Internet.
Print Sources Internet
Resources
Print
Sources
Books you can take
with you are in this number range:
Dictionaries: PE1625-PE1689
Encyclopedias: AE5
Thesauruses: PE1591
Writing essays and papers:
LB2369
When searching our
catalog (Horizon) use these subject keywords:
Dictionary
Encyclopedia
Almanac
Thesaurus
Report writing
English
language – Rhetoric
Helpful reference
books:
(All books can be found in the University of
Bahrain Library – Sakhir. Reserve books
are located at the Circulation Desk)
Webster’s 3rd new international dictionary of the
English language, unabridged –
PE1625.W36
Oxford
advanced learner’s encyclopedic dictionary - Reserve PE1628.0865 1992
Longman
active study dictionary of English - Reserve PE 628 L864 987
المورد :
قاموس
انكليزي- عربي
/ البعلبكي،
منير - Reserve PJ6640.B182001
المورد:قاموس
عربي-انكليزي
/ البعلبكي،
روحي - Reserve PJ6640.B183 2000
Roget’s II: the new
thesaurus - Reserve PE1591.R7151984
Roget’s Thesaurus of English Word’s and Phrases -
RefPE1591.R71987
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2002 - Ref
AY.67.N5 W7 (additional copy
available at the reference desk)
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica -
RefAE5.E363 2002 (available at the
reference
desk (Sakhir))
The World Book Encyclopedia -
RefAE5.W55 1996
Books on Writing Papers
and Essays (Available
at the University of Bahrain Library, Sakhir)
Essay and letter writing. Alexander, L. G -
LB2369.A3761986
Form and style: research papers, reports, theses. Slade, Carole. - LB2369.C32000
How to write better essays. Greetham,Bryan - PE1429. G74 2001
The mentor guide to
writing term papers and reports. Paxson, William C. –
LB2369.P3851988
The research project:
how to write it. Berry, Ralph, 1931- LB2369.B381994
The research paper: process, form, and content. Roth, Audrey J. - LB2369.R661986
A student's guide to
success in the real world: method to
the madness. Jell, John R. –
LB2395.C36
Internet Resources
Dictionaries Thesauruses Almanacs Encyclopedias Writing
Papers and Essays
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.com searches for your
word in up to nine different dictionaries.
If you don't know how to spell the word, just guess. You will get a list
of suggestions if you are wrong.
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
An excellent hyperlinked dictionary
and thesaurus, based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Wordsmyth
Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
This site combines a dictionary and
thesaurus into one. You can only search
on headwords and three search ranges are provided: exact, broad, and spelled-like.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
yourDictionary uses the database
of The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition
(AHD), published by Houghton-Mifflin Company.
Ajeeb’s Multilingual Dictionary
http://dictionary.ajeeb.com/en.asp
This multilingual dictionary allows
you to search for the translation of an English, French or Arabic word.
AlMisbar.com Bilingual Dictionary
http://www.almisbar.com/dict_page.html
Enter a word in English and this website will search for the
Arabic translation.
http://www.alburaq.net/dictionary1/transform.cfm
This
dictionary can be searched using Arabic and English for a translation in either
language. Definitions are available in
Arabic only.
Thesauruses
Roget's
II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed.
An online version of the 1995
edition of Roget's II, a dictionary-style thesaurus. Search for an entry, or browse alphabetically.
The Intenet edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Search for words
or browse alphabetically and by word category.