For your Annotated Bibliography, you need to:
Use this worksheet to help refine your research question through guided searching:
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Video from UTC Library
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Trade or Professional |
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Scholarly, or "peer reviewed" journals disseminate new findings, results of studies, theories, etc. | Written for "insiders" in a particular industry. Include industry news, opinion, practical advice and product reviews. | Include news, feature stories, opinion/editorial pieces, etc. Meant to inform and entertain. |
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Monthly or quarterly | Usually monthly, sometimes weekly | Weekly or monthly |
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May or may not include citations | Citations and bibliographies are rare |
Content adapted from Ithaca College Library, Research 101
Scrutinize your sources and see what others say to select the best information.
*video from NCSU libraries: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials
A database is a searchable collection of information. Databases have a mix of scholarly articles, popular articles from newspapers and magazines, trade journals, and sometimes e-books, videos, images and more.
The UTC Library subscribes to hundreds of databases. Multisubject databases provide millions of articles on a wide variety of topics. Subject-specific databases provide fewer articles, but will focus exclusively on one or two subject areas.
2. To find Subject specific databases, click on the Research Guides button and select the academic discipline your topic is associated with. For example, if your topic is about social media and body issues, you can go to the Psychology Subject guide.
Some articles have a Download PDF button when the full text is readily available. It might look like this:
If you don't see a PDF button, you might see a red Get It @ UTC button:
Click the red Get It @ UTC button to see if we have the full text in a different database.
If we don't have an article or book that you need, use Interlibrary Loan (borrow from another library) to order the article or book that you need. It's free & easy!
For the most part, all of the UTC Library databases work the same.
View this short tutorial for more examples of how to use the databases.