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Style Guides

Click any of the links below for guidelines in using MLA format.

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MLA Style Sheet

Click the link below for a short, printable guide with examples.

Citing Sources According to MLA

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Creative Writing and Academic Composition

Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing
The Cropper Center hosts an annual Writers Series, sponsors writing workshops, promotes the development of writing courses, and grants awards for creative writing. Check out this site for updates on events, workshops, and awards.
Writing Center
The USD Writing Center helps students improve their academic writing. Site also includes quick links for useful tips.

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New Books and Media for Theatre Arts

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Productions

Click the links below for current graduate and undergraduate theatre arts productions:

Old Globe/MFA Productions

The University of San Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Productions

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Welcome to the Theatre Guide

This guide is designed to give you a start on your research in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Use the tabs above to navigate to the different sections of this guide.

Click here to go to the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies home page.

Click here to go to the home page of USD's graduate theatre program.

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Key Electronic Resources

Use the databases below for locating articles and bibliographies.

International Index to the Performing Arts (Full Text)
A performing arts journal resource with over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present. IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, film, drama, and theater.
Literature Online
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 231 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
MLA Bibliography
MLA (Modern Language Abstracts) lists journal articles and a variety of other types of materials on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.
JSTOR
Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable.
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text
The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts.
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), ITER resources include Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 and Early Theatre (volume 1) 1998 to the present.
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Sage Premier Journals
The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999. Journals can be browsed by title.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other materials related to Shakespeare from 1963 to the present.
American Film Scripts Online
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays.