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Resources Plagiarism: How to Avoid It (from Indiana University at Bloomington)
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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION Course Instructor: Dr. Patrick Coppens
Finding
Journal Articles:
Locate journal articles by searching journal indexes
online from the library's home page. Choose from the suggested indexes for Communication
Disorders & Sciences.
You may need to search also in the areas of depending on your topic. Be specific in your search terms, use words that
really match your topic. Here are examples of specific search strategies
you might use and the resulting number of articles to sift through: For Full-text access, the new Science Direct research
database is one of your best choices.
Information
Research Skills: Selecting
Relevant Information: Look for material that fulfills the course requirements! That’s the number one tip for success. Relevant: right on target, focused on your topic, your topic is the main idea in the article or book, title of the work clearly reflects your topic, authors are experts in that topic area. Timely: as current as your topic requires, generally within the last three years, at least one source from the current year, use older sources when they are considered classics or to show a progression of ideas over time. The
Advantages of Different Types of Resources: Books generally provide in-depth and lengthy coverage on a given subject, but because of the amount of time involved to write and publish, the information is not always up-to-the-minute Journal Articles from periodicals are good sources for current information. Many periodicals are professional journals devoted to a specific field of study, such as Brain and Language. Articles appearing in these journals are much more authoritative than comparative newspaper articles as most have very stringent review processes for submission. Compared to books, periodical articles tend to focus on a specific aspect of a topic, and are less useful for general overviews or histories of a topic. The Internet is a great resource for getting current information on a variety of topics, BUT always consider the source. The commercial domain(.com) is less reliable than the educational(.edu) or government(.gov) domains. Also, check when the site was last updated (you can do this and check the source of the document by opening "document info" in one of the pull-down menus of your web browser). If the site was updated several months ago, chances are the information contained within is not reliable. (Adapted with permission from a guide written by David Seiller at the University at Albany 7/98)
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