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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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
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Knowledge Markethelp with writing, research, presentations, and data
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Resource MarketGuides, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants
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.
Library Basics
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Library Search Tutorial 2019Using the "Find articles, books, & more" box like a pro
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Building a Search StrategyThis tutorial explains how to best develop a search strategy before searching the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any catalog, database, or internet search engine.
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Requesting Books, Journals in Print Form, and DVDs
While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
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Practice Good Information Hygiene: Sanitize before You Share
Just adopt the four quick and easy steps below to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. If we sanitize the process around our information habits, we can prevent misleading and false content — some of which is hazardous to our health — from being widely shared and potentially doing harm.
Subject Guide
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Subjects:
Communications
- Last Updated: Sep 3, 2020 8:40 AM
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