LibGuides: COM354: Language and Social Identity: Home

Primary Sources

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)
Dubuque newspaper
Local Newspaper
Find the website for "your" local paper

Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Find U.S. news content from over 3,000 local, regional, and national sources. Includes printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos from the 1980s to current, updated daily.
National Newspapers Core This link opens in a new window
The big papers like LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

Interviews
Go straight to the source
Organization or agency website
Chances are they talk about the policy or program somewhere

Finding organizations

Struggling to find an organization?

Try an Advanced Google Search that limits to .org (in the domain box).

Check out this list of local non-profits.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming Worksheet

Secondary Sources

Academic Search Premier
Look for newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles here.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
How about another COM database?
JSTOR
Full-text articles on a variety of topics. But remember to check dates on them. JSTOR articles go all the way back to the 1880s!
ERIC
Topic related to education? Check out the library's education database.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology deals a lot with identity and community issues. Look for a different perspective on your topic here.
PsycINFO and PsycArticles
Communication and psychology often go hand in hand. Don't forget to search here too.
Business Insights: Global
Business and marketing articles

Finding Books

Don't forget, you don't need to use the whole book. Want to use just a chapter? Let us scan it for you. Fill out this form and bring it and the book up to the front (circulation) desk and we'll scan it and email it to you.

Need help reading a call number? Check out this guide.

Citing your sources

The library has created cheat sheets with basic citation examples and paper formatting tips for APA and MLA.

Purdue OWL: MLA
More MLA citation help and examples
Purdue OWL: APA
More APA citation help and examples

Interview Tips

Ask open ended questions
Don't ask questions you can find on the org's website
Do some background research first
Send a list of questions before you go
Tell them how many people you plan to bring
Take really good notes
Ask if they have any questions

COM354: Language and Social Identity: Home