CMJ 256: News Reporting: Home
Useful resources
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Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to help you learn more about multimedia journalism while using information, specifically in 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.
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.
Library Basics
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Focusing a TopicThis video shows different ways of focusing a topic for a research paper.
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Keywords, Search Terms, and Subject HeadingsThis short video demonstrates finding items with keywords and subject terms.
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Building a Search StrategyVideo explains how to develop a search strategy before using the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any database, or search engine.
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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Requesting 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. -
Resource MarketThe Resource Market has guide sheets, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants. Use the search bar or browse using the buttons.
Subject Guide
Kim Ranger
Contact:
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Mailing address: 240 Mary Idema Pew Library, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401
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Website
Subjects:
Communications, Course Guides, Multimedia Journalism
- Last Updated: Jul 22, 2021 1:52 PM
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