Library Research for Speech Communication Class @CSULB

1. Communication Studies 130
Introduction to research for your speeches

2. Library Terms.

3. PERMALINK if you
want to save the
URL/Link
Getting back to the article.

4. Get it @ CSULB
Getting to the full text.

5. Request an article
from CSU LINK
Getting to the full text.

6. CITE/CITE NOW/ CITATION
Look for these to find the
APA/MLA citation
generators
Getting to the generators.

7. Where to search.
Internet
Scholarly Articles
Books
Get Started.

8. This
week
This
month
Six
months
A year
or more
Social media Newspapers Magazines Scholarly articles Books Empirical Articles
Information.

9. What are the main issues.
What disciplines
study your topic?
Topic.

10. bail
cash Bail
bond
money bail
pre-trial detention
discrimination
remand
policy
recidivism
race
Concept B
Concept A

11. Created with Haiku Deck
Connect your terms.
specific way to
enter your
keywords

12. and
medieval and torture devices

13. live streaming or tik tok or youtube
or
latinx or hispanic or latino

14. Use the asterisk to
look for root
endings.
music* looks for music, musician, musicians
relationship* looks for relationship, relationships

15. Use quotation marks to
search for phrases.
“food insecurity”
“social media”

16. SEARCH
STATEMENTS
bail and discrimination or race
“pretrial detention” and policy
Bail bond* and recidivism

17. What a search looks like.

18. Let’s Practice.

19. If you are using APA/MLA
Style use the citation
generators.

20. Common Citation Errors. APA

21. Fixing the Errors. APA
After
Ending page
number found via
PDF of article

22. Ctrl + T *
Creates paragraphs with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.
Command for Mac
*

23. Finding the full text.
Get it @ CSULB
Steps for getting
full text
Request from
BeachReach

24. Click on Get It @ CSULB

25. Links to the OneSearch Page

26. REQUEST AN ARTICLE
We deliver it to you via link in your email

27. Look for citation generators
in the records of the article
DATABASES
ONESEARCH

28. Websites.
Evaluating sources you find on the
internet.

29. Google.
Advanced search options to use
in Google.

30. Tiffini Travis
tiffini.travis@csulb.edu
Please put your course
and name in the
subject line!