Communication Studies: Home
major program; core classes
Useful resources
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Citing Sourcesstyle guides & examples for reference lists (aka bibliographies).
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Knowledge Markethelp with research, writing, presentations, and data
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Resource MarketGuides, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants
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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
Department Links
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Communication Studies Majorinfo from the School of Communications.
Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to: help you learn more about Communication Studies while using information, provide resources for doing research in the core classes in the majors within the School of Communications, help you save time and energy, and successfully complete your assignments.
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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Congress TweetsVisualized data from the Pudding on the topics that members of Congress discuss.
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Crisis in Democracy: Renewing Trust in AmericaKnight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy's 2019 report questions democracy, epistemology, media, technology, and citizenship as interdependent issues.
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On the Media from NPRWNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.
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
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- Last Updated: Jul 22, 2021 1:45 PM
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