This presentation will help you find quantitative articles related to communication studies research

1. COMM 200 RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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2. NOT FOR COMM 200
ONESEARCH
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4. The elements of the
record that you need to
create a reference list
Citation

5. Look for this button
to find out if the
item is full text
Get it @ CSULB

6. If the article is not full text,
we will get it for you- just
click on the link that says

7. SUCCESS
DO THESE THINGS TO GET A GOOD GRADE
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8. THE LIST
YOU MUST USE JOURNALS FROM THE
COMMUNICATION JOURNAL LIST.

9. 1. Find your article in the database and click on the title of
the article
2. Look at the SOURCE line of the record
3. Look at the COMM Journals
list (pdf.)to make sure your
article citation is there.
Journal Title
Journal Title

10. USE ME.
DO NOT GET FRUSTRATED. TRY IT
YOURSELF BUT CONTACT ME IF YOU
ARE NOT FINDING RESULTS. I WONT DO
YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOU BUT I WILL
SAVE YOU TIME AND FRUSTRATION.

11. WORKSHOPS
ATTEND A ZOOM WORKSHOP TO
ENSURE YOU DON’T LOSE POINTS DUE
TO COSTLY MISTAKES.

12. WORKSHOPS

13. SOCIAL
SCIENCE
EMPIRICAL
THEORY BASED
STUDIES ARE CONDUCTED
DATA IS GATHERED

14. Organizational
Interpersonal
Family Communication
Gender Differences
Social media
Intercultural
Romantic Relationships
Computer mediated
Media/Television studies
Athletes
Types of Comm Science Research

15. Social Science Articles
1 2 3 4 5
10-15
pages
long
Published
in an
academic
journal
Abstracts
contains words
like:
Data, Participants,
this study,
methodology,
further research
20-40
references
Written by
academics
with
university
affiliations

16. LITERATURE REVIEW
METHODOLOGY
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FUTURE RESEARCH
Comm (Social) Science Articles

17. YOUR TURN
SELECT A SOCIAL SCIENCE TOPIC

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19. NOT Social Science
1. You are looking at animal behavior
2. You do not have any
communication variables
3. It is not examining one of the main
areas listed in the previous slide

20. COVID 19 RESEARCH
I do not advise selecting COVID as a topic yet! Purely
because research is so new, that you will not find a
great selection of research done in the USA for every
subtopic. Check with me if you really want to do it and
need to determine if the research is there.

21. SAMPLE TOPICS
Emojis and interpersonal communication
Aggressive communication and workplace
Deception detection and law enforcement
Body Image and television viewing
First impression and face to face
Add a population, specific type of media, social situation
or profession to make your topic more narrow or unique!

22. Refining your topic
1. Your population group should be
common across articles. For
example: same age group, same
relationship type, same social situation.
2. Stay away from countries that
don’t have similar cultures to the
USA. Avoid countries in Asia, Africa,
Middle East or Developing countries. Use
countries with similar social norms and
freedoms.

23. Refining your topic
3. Baby steps: don’t be too complex!
4. Don’t be too generic! Narrow by
relationship, population, gender,
type of communication or media
5. If your topic has a lot published
about it think of an unexplored
angle.

24. YOUR TURN
THINK OF KEYWORDS, SYNONYMS,
RELATED RESEARCH

25. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example: black and
white
and

26. Place your terms in the
same search box for
Psycinfo and Comm Source
romantic or interpersonal

27. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
athlet* looks for athlete,
athletes, athletic

28. “ ”
Use this to search for
phrases. For example:
“social dating”

29. YOUR TURN
MODIFY YOUR SEARCH

30. Text* and jealousy and dating
Friends and benefits and gender
Athlete* and “verbal immediacy”

31. PSYCINFO
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Communication Source (formerly Comm Mass Media Complete)

32. 3 QUICK STEPS FOR SEARCHING DATABASES
Start from the COMM
200 Page
Only use these
two databases
Type in your keywords in
the correct format!

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39. Common Citation Errors. APA
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

40. Fixing the Errors. APA
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case
3. Italicize the Journal Title
4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
5. Create a hanging indent
After

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