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COMM 297 Southerland: Review: Books

Why use books for Research?

Why use books for research?

  • High quality; university publishers; works written by top experts
  • Detailed analysis of a topic
  • Background information
  • Many contain articles as book chapters
  • Use bibliographies/references in books to find additional sources

Using WorldCat Discovery to find books

Is there such as thing as neutral, objective news media? Have news outlets always been biased? How can news sources be evaluated?

Keywords:     news media    bias     evaluation       methods    

1. news media  = Over 5 million results

2. add "bias" = 65,000+

3. Limit to BOOK format under Refine search on the left side of the catalog = 4,720 

Have a look at Bias : a CBS insider exposes how the media distort the news by Bernard Goldberg.

  • Summary, subject links, Location, Status, TOC, Cite/Export to Refworks.
  • Find the Library Links drop menu in the upper-right side of the catalog. Use the Call Number Map to find this book's shelf location. 

3. Sort list of results by: newest to oldest

4. Books SU Libraries doesn't own: Interlibrary Loan.