Review of resources Inquiry 100: Becoming a leader (Legler)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
Why Cite? - Use your Hacker's book to check citations
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.
Online reference sources
Sage Reference Online
Credo Reference contains The ultimate business resourceIssue driven online reference sources
CQ Researcher
Issues and Controversies
Points of View ReferencePrint reference sources - similar titles may be in the same shelf area
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Ref HD 30.15.B573 2005
Encyclopedia of Leadership Ref HD57.7 .E53 2004
The ultimate business resource Ref HD38.15.B87 2006Finding a resource from a citation or bibliography
Book from a citation - search MnPALS Plus or WorldCat
Article from a citation - search FindItJournal, magazine, newspaper article content is found using an index or database
Academic Search Premier - add Business Source Premier
Proquest Newspapers or LexisNexis or CQ Weekly for newspapers
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