This summer, The National Council for the Teachers of English (NCTE) is exploring a variety of Web sites and tools that teachers can use in the classroom and/or for their professional development. This week, NCTE explains why writing teachers at the college level should know about Compile.
So what is it? Compile is a database of 94956 records that catalog books, journal articles, and other publications in composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies. The collection has a full range of search capabilities.
The purpose of Compile is to allow ready reference to the published twentieth-century work in post-secondary composition and rhetoric, from the beginning of WWII to the end of the century. It does not extend before 1939 or after 1999. It is an on-line, keyworded, searchable inventory for researchers and teachers and anybody else interested. Compile is offered in the spirit of free research and scholarship. (Use of this bibliography for profit, however, requires permission.)
CompPile's focus is on post-secondary writing. It integrates journal articles, review-essays, notes and comments, books, dissertations, ERIC items, and edited collections. It does not systematically cover textbooks, how-to books, conference notices, editor's forwards, or reviews of single works.
Source: NCTE
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