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Engagements With the Common Good

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Holy Spirit Library

Course Guide for Engagements With the Common Good

Research Process:

1. Define your topic

2. Locate background information and identify keywords/terms

· What are the key concepts in your topic?

· What are the scientific concepts?

· What terms will you use?

3. Translate the topic into a search query

4. Choose the proper search tool

5. Perform your search and evaluate your results

allows you to search for books, e-books, print periodicals, videos, DVDs, CDs

Search by:

▫word or phrase

▫author

▫title

▫subject

▫seriesperiodical title

Suggested Databases:

Characteristics	Scholarly Journal	Popular Magazine
Presentation	Articles are lengthy Serious appearance; glossy pages or photographs are not found May contain graphs or charts to support the article topic Advertisements are minimal, if found at all.	Articles generally short Attractive appearance Advertisements Heavily illustrated
Audience	Scholars, professionals, and students	General audience
Authors	Scholars, professionals, experts in a particular field of study	Reporters, Journalists, usually not experts on the subject
Documentation	Sources cited in footnotes and/or bibliography	Sources not cited or cited informally within the text of the article
Purpose	To disseminate information in a particular field of study; to report results of original research or experimentation, present reviews of recently published books, and announce meetings or seminars.	Provide general information
Article Acceptance Procedure	Many scholarly journals are refereed journals - undergoing a process called "peer-review" where other scholars in the field examine the articles before being published	Written by hired reporters, edited by magazine editors, and published for commercial purposes
Publishers	Scholarly societies, institutions, and councils are common journal publishers, as are colleges and universities.	For-profit companies such as Time Warner or Walt Disney