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CST 315 - Persuasion and Social Influence

Background Information

Opposing Viewpoints
Provides an overview of both sides of major issues and full text articles.

CQ Public Affairs Collection
Analysis of public policy issues.  Note the dates to be sure you get current information.

CQ Researcher Plus Archive
Analysis of current and past events, politics, and social issues. Note the dates to be sure you get current information.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric.
Full text articles on all aspects of rhetoric including persuasion.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (full text specialized encyclopedias)
Full text articles on a wide variety of topics


Finding Resources

Boolean Searching using connectors AND, OR, and NOT.
newFind a full text of an article (2:56 min, Flash video) 

Databases for General Articles

Academic Search Premier

ProQuest Research Library

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) Plus

LexisNexis Academic

Databases for  Scholarly Articles

How to Find Articles in Scholarly Resources

Communication and Mass Media Complete, 1915 to date.
Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in several hundred journals in the fields of human communication and mass media, including the fulltext of articles from over 240 journals, including most years of all the journals from the National Communication Association.

PsycInfo (psychology research)

SocIndex with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)


Style Guide

UNCG's APA Style Quick Reference

APA's website for citing electronic formats


Web Sites

Search the Internet

Evaluating Web Pages

American Rhetoric (Great American Speeches)

Communication Studies Resources (University of Iowa)

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