CMNS 261 Study Guide - Final Guide: Net Profit, Proxy Statement, Financial Statement

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Index, access to both full text (data format) information format, textbook page. Part a: corporation : a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. Primary sources are what we usually refer to as documents. They are created by individuals, companies, organizations, and government departments in the process of doing something relevant to the organization"s purpose: scholarly journal: report on original research to the rest of the scholarly community. They usually contain footnotes and are published bi-monthly or quarterly. An example is the canadian journal of communication: database: a collection of information organized in such a way that specific items can be retrieved, data: facts or figures from which conclusions can be drawn (para. 2). (note that data is a plural assignment 1 12 word like media.