Comm 1313 presentation

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Comm 1313 presentation

• Necia Parker-Gibson
• Social Sciences Librarian
• neciap_at_uark.edu
• Rebekah Fox
• Communication Instructor
• rhuss_at_uark.edu

Fall 2003
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presentation.
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Logos, Pathos, Ethos

• Argument
• We should have sex ed in high schools!
• Proposition (to prove)
• High schools that allow comprehensive sex
  education have reduced rates of teenage
  pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in
  their populations
• Justification (Proof)
• Eight out of ten high schools that allowed sex
  education had reduced rates of teen pregnancies
  and STDs

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The argument your case

• The argument is not a shouting match, but the
  rational basis of your intellectual opinion and
  process
• Evidence is how you support your case

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Proof the heart of the argument

• Proof requires evidence
• Shows that what you say may be true
• Because X equals Y
• Not just because you say so.

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Evidence is the heart of proof

• The library has many sources of authoritative
  evidence
• Therefore, you should use our resources!

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General or subject reference sources

• Encyclopedias and handbooks
• On many subjects!
• Not every subject has an entire encyclopedia
  devoted to it, but many have essays or
  selections.you may have to look under more than
  one heading to find what you seek.
• Some examples of reference sources-

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Statistical Abstracts

• Statistical Abstracts of the United States
• Or LexisNexis Statistical
• statistics in table form on all kinds of issues
• mortality, education, employment, advertising,
  acreage in farms, etc.

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Crime in the USA, also known as the Uniform Crime
Reports

• Government crime statistics
• Esp. for felonies, such as assault, rape, murder,
  burglary
• Who does what to whom, on average
• How often, when, where

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The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior

• Selections run from Accountability and Social
  Cognition to Work and Motivation
• Brief but scholarly descriptions, with
  cross-references to other topics and short
  bibliographies

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Handbook of Water Use and Conservation

• Naturally enough, statistics and facts about use
  and conservation of water in the United States.

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Reference materials, such as

• FactSearch
• Extracts (quotes of statistics in context) and
  abstracts(summaries) of materials about public
  policy issues (database)
• We own many of the titles indexed in this.
• The Encyclopedia of Global Change, and 29,000
  other things, including medical dictionaries,
  handbooks of historical statistics, materials on
  ?.

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After deciding on your topicthink about what you
know, then--

• Check InfoLinks for
• books
• reference books
• other sources, such as government documents
• journals by title

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Search InfoLinks by

• Author (if known), last name first
• James, Henry to get works by Henry James
• Title (if known)
• Journal Title
• Subject headings
• Keyword

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Journal Title

• Type in the title of the journal, magazine or
  newspaper
• e.g., Communication Education
• NOT the title of articles!

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InfoLinks records show

• Information about books, periodicals by title,
  and audio-visual or other materials which the
  Libraries own
• To find what articles exist in periodicals,
  youll need to use indexes or databases!

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Subject Headings Searches

• Subject headings
• Are Library of Congress subject headings
• They may not be what you expect--sometimes odd
• e.g., Music and youth for the relationship of
  teenagers to their music
• e.g., all terrain cycling for mountain biking

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Search persons

• Last name first
• i.e., Bush, George
• For commentary on someones work
• For political or literary criticism
• For biographies

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Keyword

• If in doubt, use a keyword search!
• Broadest search in InfoLinks
• Finds the term where it occurs (titles, subject
  headings, notes)
• Can lead to better or different subject terms

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In Keyword Searches

• Use AND between terms unless you are searching
  for a phrase
• AND focuses the search--
• drug abuse AND statistics
• More terms with AND between them means a smaller
  retrieval set
• People who wear jeans AND sandals AND tee shirts
  to class are a smaller set than the number who
  wear jeans .

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Keyword searches with OR

• Use OR between terms to broaden a search
• OR gets a larger retrieval set than either term
  by itself
• Drug treatment OR drug rehabilitation
• Drug and (treatment or rehabilitation)

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Keyword searches with AND NOT

• Use AND NOT to eliminate the second term from the
  search
• drug treatment AND NOT religio
• Use with care you may knock out something that
  you want.

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You may limit by date, material type and location
in keyword searches.
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Youll generate a list of sources

• Click on titles that look promising, for more
  information, location and call number

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Find by location and call number
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Location means

• The library where the material is housed
• there are five libraries on campus
• Mullins Library, Young Law Library, the Fine Arts
  Library, the Chemistry Library and the Physics
  Library
• Mullins is the MAIN library, so a location of
  MAIN is in Mullins Library
• Some locations are within Mullins, such as
• the Audiovisual Department
• the Government Documents Department
• the Special Collections Department

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Main is Mullins Library. There are four other
libraries on campus!
Call numbers show where the materials are on the
shelves check the call number guides!
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Be sure it says check shelves, and not due (or
missing, or paid, or damaged)
We have library maps with call numbers at the
Reference Desk if you need help!
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Lets talk about periodicals--
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In libraries, what we call periodicals are

• Journals
• Magazines
• Newspapers

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For this (and many other) assignments

• You will be asked to use
• Professional journals
• Scholarly journals
• Academic journals
• Or just plain journals
• These are a particular type of publication used
  to distribute research results and other types of
  scholarship in a discipline

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Journal articles

• Are more rigorously edited
• Are less likely to show bias
• Provide better support for your arguments,
  generally

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Journal articles

• Are considered authoritative/scholarly-- written
  by experts primarily for experts
• Are set up in a specific way (varies by journal
  and discipline, but some commonalities)
• Have their sources cited
• You can find the sources, then see if you agree
  with the authors interpretation
• Are usually peer-reviewed (reviewed by a
  committee of experts) and thus more likely to be
  of good quality

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The next three slides illustrate

• Common ways to recognize a journal article
• Each illustration is cut from a single article
  which includes all the common elements that
  signal a journal article
• Look for the added hints in blue!

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Format clues include
Named author, title, journal title (quarterly),
volume and issue , pages youll need this
information for your bibliography!
The abstract describes the article.
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Group Projects and Peer Review, pg. 2
Continued from previous slide
Journal articles in the social sciences or
sciences often have named sections (such as
methods, procedures, results, discussion, and
conclusions). Humanities journals commonly dont
divide articles into sections like this.
Cited references
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Group Projects and Peer Review, pg. 3
Continued from previous slide
More references hint some of these may also be
useful sources
Authors affiliation. I checked their web site.
The author is a full professor at this
institution.
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Magazines

• Are written for a general audience
• May or may not be authoritative
• More casual format
• Sources usually not cited
• Authors may or may not be experts
• Lots of illustrations (often)

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Newspapers

• General audience
• May or may not be authoritative
• May or may not cite sources
• Usually todays stories
• Some stories may require long-term research by
  the author

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InfoLinks records show

• Information about books, periodicals by title,
  and audio-visual materials which the Libraries
  own
• To find articles in periodicals, youll need to
  use indexes or databases!

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Use indexes or databases to find citations,
abstracts or the whole thing

• Databases may have just the citation
• Author, title, periodical title, date, volume,
  pages, etc.
• OR the citation with an abstract
• Most databases ERIC, Agricola, Sociological
  Abstracts, EconLit, Ingenta

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For full text databases--

• Sometimes, the citation with the full text of the
  article
• In ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and their related
  databases, or Lexis Nexis Academic
• Not all articles in all publications, not all
  issues of all publications

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There are lists of databases by subject

• On the Libraries home page
• Under Electronic Resources and Databases / by
  Subject

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For example
This is a part of the list under Communication.
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Some databases

• Link back to InfoLinks records for journals we
  own, even if they arent in that particular
  database
• Ebscohost databases (Academic Search Premier,
  Business Source Premier, PsycInfo)
• CSA databases (Sociological Abstracts)
• FirstSearch databases (ArticleFirst, ERIC,
  others)
• Some databases also allow interlibrary loan
  requests from within the database.
• ProQuest does not provide links to our holdings

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In some databases

• Such as Ebscohost
• Click on Check InfoLinks for this Journal if
  full text is not available
• A window will open that shows the records for our
  holdings of the title.

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i.e., Ebscohost databases
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If you are in a database that doesnt link back
to what we own

• Check InfoLinks!
• Search by Journal title
• e.g. Communication Education, Public Opinion
  Quarterly, Journal of Popular Culture

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The Libraries have some journal titles

• In more than one place or more than one format
• On shelves, by call number
• On microfilm or microfiche, by call number
• In electronic format for some years
• Combinations of the above!
• Check dates closely for coverage of the item you
  want!

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For example,Communication Education

• Is available in two formats
• In print on the shelves in Mullins, with current
  issues in the Periodicals Room
• And in electronic format through ProQuest, since
  1992

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Type in the title
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Two records are listed
Main means Mullins
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In print, with current issues in the Periodicals
Room
Earlier bound issues are in the stacks
Older issues are on the shelves on Level 1
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Some issues are online through ProQuest Direct
Click here to access
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The Journal of Communication is more complicated
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First record print issues, by call number, cdrom
and internet subscriptions
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2nd record some issues through ProQuest