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ENGWR 300 - Professor O'Brien (Spring 2015): Finding Sources

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How to Read a Scholarly Journal Article

Scholarly journal articles can be very challenging, especially if you're new to them. These sources give some ideas on how to tackle a scholarly journal article.

Possible Keywords for Searches

You might try experimenting with any of these keywords in your search. 

The asterisk makes it so you get anything that starts with those letters. For example network* would find network, networks, and networking.

social media

social network*

Internet 

web 2.0

facebook

twitter

online

friend*

interpersonal*

relations*

social aspects

addict*

adolesc* 

teen*

politic*

depress*

mood

social

psycholog*

narciss*

homophily

Background Sources

Finding Articles with OneSearch

This video will walk you through the process of finding books and articles using OneSearch.

You can get to OneSearch from the library's databases page.

Finding Books

Need a refresher on how to find books? This short video will walk you through the basics. Click once to play the video, and once more after that to open it in a new window so you can see it better.