CMJ 256: News Reporting: Home
Useful resources
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Knowledge Markethelp with writing, research, presentations, visualizing basic data sets and engaging with social media platforms and other digital tech
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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
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Citing Sourcesstyle guides & examples for reference lists (aka bibliographies).
Department Links
Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to help you learn more about CMJ 256 News Reporting by practicing:
- writing & reporting -- from basic information-gathering & news presentation -- to professional explanatory, in-depth, technical, or investigative journalism in digital & print platforms
- storytelling
- editing
- history, theory, practice, & criticism
- interacting with the library and faculty/staff to achieve the goals above.
Each discipline or field of study has different values about types of information and procedures for research, so the resources here will be different from those you might have used in other courses in fields like Writing or Biology.
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Use the step-by-step guide for finding and getting sources!PowerPoint tutorial: click the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
GVSU Library Tutorials
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Focus Your TopicThis video shows different ways of focusing a topic for a research paper.
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Build Your Search StrategyThis short video explains how to develop a search strategy before finding books and media or articles in databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any search.
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Keywords, Search Terms, and Subject HeadingsThis short video demonstrates finding items with keywords and subject terms.
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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Bias in Information Sources3 1/2 minute video defines bias in information and how to address it.
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Citation TutorialLearn and test your skills
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Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Request Books, Journals in Print Form, and DVDs
Watch video of the ASRS robot in action.
Some books, DVDs, and journals are in the book retrieval system (Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
Subject Guide
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Contact:
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- Last Updated: Sep 6, 2022 9:05 AM
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