COM 11400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 46-47: Open Library

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 11400
• Professor: Katherine Miller

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Include historical documents, literary works, eyewitness accounts, field reports, diaries, letters, and lab studies: original research. Secondary: scholarly books and articles, reviews, biographies, textbooks, and other works that interpret or discuss primary sources, useful because they can help you understand and evaluate primary sources, can distort or misrepresent information. Detailed list of works cited or references. Little or no advertising on websites or inside the journal. Some sources available only in print and some only online. 4 paths to finding sources: reference works, library catalog. Indexes and databases: search sites and subject directories. Most of your search will be online. Use keywords and combinations of them that will focus your searches on the information you. Search for authors, titles, or subjects (cid:374)eed (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h. One general keyword will end up with too many results. A very specific phrase will not turn up enough results. More often a word is used the bigger it is.