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COMM 101 Research Guide: Welcome!

Library workshop goals:

  1. Identify keywords from a research topic; use keywords to search a COMM database.
  2. Familiarity with Strategic Reading technique.
  3. Evaluate database article results based on assignment requirements.
  4. Identify one primary research article.

Finding Communication Research

Your assignment requires you to find research articles that contain each of the following sections:

  • Research question and/or hypotheses
  • Methods section
  • Results section
  • Discussion Section

This library workshop intends to help you to efficiently and effectively search for articles containing these characteristics through practice database searching using an example topic, evaluation techniques, and double-checking article citations for accuracy.

Quick Poll! What citation style does your work require? Please select the style below.
Chicago style: 0 votes (0%)
MLA style: 21 votes (16.67%)
APA style: 105 votes (83.33%)
AARP style: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 126