COM 11400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Google Scholar, Reddit, Google News
28 Jan 2019
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Content: locating supporting material, need for info depends on speaking situation, more reluctant may need more support vs more open audiences, should go beyond google and wikipedia, online resources, google scholar. Articles, theses, court opinions, info from academic publishers, professional societies, etc: organizational websites, usually have info about themselves and but link to other info on their industry or related material, crowd sourcing platforms. Example: reddit: members rate and discuss content, crowd controls what s popular, blogs, usually written on variety of topics. Authors vary in expertise (credibility: twitter and other social media. Follow leading experts: online newspaper and magazines. Software or web applications that pull all of the news together from syndicated source into one place so it is easy to find. Example: google news and apple news: databases. Variety of different types of material: good places to begin general searches, scholarly peer-reviewed articles, usually very credible, book, currency is a limitation, librarians.
