Magazines, Journals, Trade Journals, News - What's the difference? Identifying characteristics

Articles - scholarly article, review, popular  Review: Vanderbilt video 

Primary vs. Secondary - documents and articles

• Primary Documents - original material, discipline dependent
• Primary Research Articles - original research, look for hypothesis (question they wish to answer), methodology and experiment, conclusions.
• Secondary Articles - someone else's interpretation of material taken from primary documents examples: review of a topic, opinions, reports, etc...

Articles: Evaluate content of your potential sources and cite your sources

PASS evaluation  details for paper, web and articles
     see also: tips for finding authority other evaluation tools at Cornell and Owl at Purdue

Why Cite? -  Citation Styles Help includes Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online for APA examples see Social Sciences, for MLA see Humanities - annotation/cite help sheet

RefWorks Create an account. Create a folder for your class. Save article citations to your folder. 

Building Search vocabulary templates:  Search terms template  concept map
     Find background information and define terms with reference works. Examples of terms: Ethics, ethical, leadership, decision making, morals, values...
       
        Online reference sources
                    Sage Reference Online
                    Credo Reference
                    Gale Student Resources in Context

        Issue driven reference sources
                    CQ Researcher 
                    Issues and Controversies
                    Points of View Reference                   

        Print reference sources - look at surrounding shelf area for similar titles       

The ul.ti.mate business dictionary        Ref HF1001.U48 2003
        Definitions for business words and phrases. Ex.: business ethics; causality; code of conduct... 
        NOTE: other subjects may define words differently.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Business Ethics        Ref HD 30.15.B573 2005

Ethics        Ref BJ63.E84 2005
        Terms to try: Casuistry, golden rule, situation ethics, causation and responsibility

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy        Ref B51.R68 1998
        Terms to try: Casuistry, causality or causation, situation ethics

The ultimate business resource        Ref HD38.15.B87 2006
        Terms to try: Business ethics, decision making

Journal, magazine, newspaper article content is found using an index or database

Academic Search Premier - add Business Source Premier

Expanded Academic Index

Sage eJournals Premier Collection

Proquest Newspapers or LexisNexis or CQ Weekly for newspapers

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