The document provides an overview of the new library homepage and resources, including a new search box that allows searching across all CSU campuses, no longer requiring a library password and instead using a student's Beach ID, and databases like SocIndex, Psycinfo, and ERIC that can be used to find scholarly sources. Tips are provided for effective searching, including using synonyms, related terms, and quotation marks, as well as how to request articles through BeachReach which takes 48-72 hours to deliver. Common citation errors are highlighted and how to properly format citations from databases like Comm Mass Media Complete and EBSCOhost.

1. Commun
ication
301
Tiffini Travis

2. HOME PAGE
NEW LIBRARY
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3. What’s new?
1. Most important links are under big
search box
2. Big search box replaces our old
library catalog
3. You can now get items from every
single CSU Campus

4. No more
Library
Password!
Library
now uses
Beach ID

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6. Searching
for bOOks

7. Contains the databases: SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo and ERIC
ONESEARCH

8. Artifact

9. synonyms
related terms
Select a socially relevant artifact
Background
Information
Scholarly research
Genre
Major
Themes

10. Scholarly and popular
the difference is the content!
Movie review vs. Film criticism
Speech in the news vs. Speech analysis
Book review vs. Literary criticism
Music review vs. music criticism

11. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example:
racism and rhetoric
and

12. Place your terms in
the same search box
DO NOT USE THE “OR” OPTION IN THE PULL DOWN
MENU OF THE DATABASE!!!
or
Rhetoric or Discourse

13. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
rac* looks for racial,
race, races,

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

15. 95%OF YOUR TOPICS WILL HAVE
ZERO RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
90% OF TOPICS WILL HAVE ZERO
SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS

16. Finding Rhetorical analysis
USE YOUR THIS BOOK
Rhetorical criticism : exploration and practice / Sonja K. Foss.
Find an article citation at the end
of the chapter of your method
(samples of XX method)
Type the TITLE of the ARTICLE into the big box

17. Searching
for
ArticLes

18. Getting
the
Article
PDF
BeachReach
Get It @ CSULB

19. Citing with
Comm Mass Media Complete
Click here to get
the APA Citation
formatted

20. Ctrl+ T
Creates paragraphs
with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.

21. Click on Get It @ CSULB

22. Links to the OneSearch Page

23. Takes 48-72 HOURS
We deliver it to you via link in
your email
BeachReach

24. Common Citation Errors.
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

25. Fixing the Errors.
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

26. Citing with EBSCOHOST
Click here to get
the APA Citation
formatted

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