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/