The Bibliography for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication has been enhanced to provide with you with greater flexibility. As before, you can browse by author's last name and by title of featured journals. In addition, you can now conduct keyword searches on the bibliography database.

The new title reflects the wider scope of the enhanced version. The bibliography now contains citations for over 7,600 articles and books dealing with issues related to rhetoric, composition, professional communication, and associated topics, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

In addition, the bibliography will eventually include complete table of contents listings for 19 featured journals running from 1975 (or first year of publication) to the current year. Currently, this portion of the bibliography is about 60% complete.

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If you do not have the latest version of your favorite browser, check with the software manufacturer or your departmental computer guru.

Browsers which do not support JavaScript 1.2 or JScript 3.0 will probably cause your computer to crash.

Because of the large number of citations, opening the bibliography may take several minutes. For example, if you are connected via a 56K modem, you can expect downloading to take about 3 minutes. If you are connected via a 14.4K modem, you can expect downloading to take about 9 minutes.

However, once open, browsing and searching will take only a few seconds on computers faster than 200 MHz. Computers with slower clock speeds will still work, but browsing and searching performance will be slow, especially on computers with speeds less than 100 MHz.

All the files for the bibliography have been compressed into a single file you can download for use offline. This option will save you waiting for the bibliography to download via the internet each time you want to use it.

1. Create a new directory on your hard drive and give it an appropriate name
2. Click on this link to download the compressed file
3. Save the file in the directory you created
4. Decompress the file using a freeware utility such as FreeZip (for PCs) or StuffIt Expander (for Macs or PCs)
   (Simply opening the file will start the decompression programs on most systems.)
5. Use your browser to open the bib-frame.html file
6. Create a bookmark in your browser for easy access

To keep your copy up-to-date, you should check this site every month or so for updates.

Although tested on several systems, the bibliography has not undergone rigorous testing. If you have trouble working with the bibliography, send comments to W. Scott Thune.

Please include as much information as possible about your computer system to help with the diagnosis, such as computer type, CPU speed, amount of memory, operating system, and browser (include version number).