First-Year Composition

This guide will help students find primary and secondary sources for English 101, 102, 112, 198, 298 assignments.

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Here you'll find a number of ways to search for many kinds of popular sources. A popular source is a publication that provides general knowledge or commentary on current events or popular culture. Magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and New Yorker, and newspapers such as The New York Times are all popular publications. These sources are directed towards the general public, and will not typically contain an abstract, citations, or research findings.

New York Times In Education

Product covers 16 disciplines of study. Faculty contributors post weekly updates featuring a piece of journalism and prompts for discussion, exploration, and analysis of what's happening in the news with their studies.

The New York Times In Education is located on a separate website than the New York Times, 1851- current website. To gain entry to the education site, new users must visit nytimesineducation.com and register on the upper right- hand side on the page using your UT email address. For your convenience, the same password used for your New York Times (news) account can be used to register for the education site.

Tip: when searching for our institution, you can either type in the full name The University of Tennessee or just Tennessee.

If the content of a New York Times article is inaccessible to you, please contact eproblems@utk.edu for assistance.

TED YouTube Channel
The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know.

Ground News

A platform that enables the reader to compare how a story is being covered by thousands of sources from across the political spectrum and from around the world.

If you're not automatically taken to log you in through your UT credentials, choose 'Continue with Institution' and search 'University of Tennessee.

If you log in more than once per browser session and get an error message about Unsuccessful Validation, clear the browser history. Once the browser history is cleared you can log in. Please see this FAQ for clearing cache and cookies in browsers.

Users of keyboard navigation or screen readers may require assistance with this resource. Please contact eproblems@utk.edu for help.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and millions already have.

Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia consists of freely editable content, with articles that usually contain numerous links guiding readers to more information.

Factiva
A collection of thousands of full-text magazines and newspapers plus corporate and stock market data.