COMM 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Brookings Institution, Rand Corporation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Communication (COMM)
• Course: COMM 004
• Professor: Johnson

Document Summary

Mass-market publications do not provide full reports of research studies and should not be used to prepare the literature review. After requiring a ph. d. degree, you must complete a work of original research, a dissertation thesis. Dissertations report on original research = valuable sources of info. Specialized indexes list dissertations completed by students at accredited universities. Dissertation abstracts international - lists dissertations with their authors, titles, and universities. Governments, state- or provincial-level govs, the un, international agencies (ex. Bank) all sponsor studies and publish reports of the research. College and universities libraries - listed under government documents section. Tricky to find, need help with specialized lists of publications and indexes, help of a librarian. Hard to obtain unless you"re a specialist. Usually used if you"re doing a thorough review of the literature. Research institutes and policy centres publish papers and reports: Brookings institute, institute for research on poverty, rand corporation, etc.