find journal articles

find books

evaluate sources

avoid plagiarism

cite sources (APA)

BCOM 306Business Communication
Jill Markgraf, Librarian

To find journal articles on your BCOM topic:

• Core & More -- look under MIS, Computer Science or Education to find appropriate journal article databases in which to search.

• Additional databases that may be useful:
  LexisNexis Academic: Contains the full text of the Chronicle of Higher Education and university news wires.
  (NOTE: Paper and microfilm copies of the Chronicle of Higher Education can be found on the library's 2nd floor!)
  To use:
  1. Click Guided News Search tab
  2. From the Select a News Category menu, choose University News
  3. From the Select a News Source menu, choose either the Chronicle or University Wire.
  4. Notice that the default date range to be searched is just the previous 6 months. You may choose to extend this.
     
• Academic Search Elite: Contains articles from a broad range of disciplines

Databases don't always provide the entire journal article online. Sometimes they only provide a citation (i.e. title, author, name of journal, date, page, etc.). To find out if the library subscribes to a journal you need, check the Periodicals List.                                            Help for using the Periodicals List

To find books on your BCOM topic, try searching  the Voyager Online Catalog by subject headings. The following subject headings may be useful:

• Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.

• Internet (Computer network) in education

• Telecommunication in higher education

• Educational technology

• Education, Higher -- Computer network resources

• Computer-assisted instruction
  
  In the subject areas above, you may retrieve results that are located in "netLibrary." These are electronic books. After setting up a free account, you can browse them (for 15 minutes) or "check them out" (for 24 hours at a time). For more on netLibrary
  
  For more on using the McIntyre Library Online Catalog

To evaluate your sources

• Consider the Source: resources for evaluating information

• Scholarly vs. Popular journals: how to tell the difference

To avoid plagiarism

• Take a quick quiz to understand what it is and what it isn't:
  --Indiana University's What is Plagiarism online quiz, (by Ted Frick, Indiana University)
  --Empire State College online plagiarism quiz

• Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

• Quoting and paraphrasing (UW-Madison Writer's Handbook)

• What is plagiarism? (plagiarism.org)

To cite your sources:

APA format

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.
  BF76.7 .P83 2001 (Copies available at the library reference desk, in the reference collection and on reserve. Older editions available for check out can be found on the 3rd floor)

• Using APA format (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

• APA Documentation Style (UW-Madison Writer's Handbook)

• APA Citation Style (Long Island University)

• Electronic References (APAstyle.org)

MLA format

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
  LB2369 .G53 1999 (Copies available at the library reference desk and on reserve).
  
  
• Using MLA format (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
  
  
• MLA Documentation Style (UW-Madison Writer's Handbook)

Other formats

• Citation Style for Research Papers (Long Island University)
  How to cite sources for APA, MLA, AMA, Turabian, and Chicago styles
  
  

PLEASE HELP ME....
by evaluating your library instruction session. (It shouldn't take more than a minute or two, and your comments will help the library provide you with better service). Thank you!

Jill Markgraf 
markgrjs@uwec.edu 
Distance Education Librarian
04/10/2003