COMM350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ebsco Information Services, Lexisnexis, Brainstorming

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM350
• Professor: Prettyman Duncan

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Choosing your topic: the occasion may determine your topic, may be based on your knowledge, an issue you are curious about. Brainstorming for topics: write down as many topics as possible, create categories of topics then add to the lists, browse through newspapers, magazines, or online news sites, ask your peers. Worth both (cid:455)our ti(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d the audie(cid:374)(cid:272)e"s: broad. Is there only one article on it: technical. You (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to treat the spee(cid:272)h as a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)ersatio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith (cid:455)our audie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut there"s a li(cid:374)e (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ross. Research and preparation: once the topic is selected the next step is to begin research, there are many excellent resources available to students. Great for finding articles in journals and magazines. Many databases give you access to full articles. Many newspaper articles can be found in database. Ud has a special page just for newspapers: search engines. Use a systematic search strategy: government websites. Access to a host of government documents and statistics.