I like to read articles

1
I like to read articles

• From the journal webpage (free)
• From a personal subscription (print or online)
• From a library subscription

2
Which Statement is False? My objective for this
research assignment is to

• Fill time while I am at a conference
• Have another grade for the Gradebook
• Get out of my hot class and into the air
  conditioning
• Have students run into dead ends

3
The Internet
Public
Google World Wide Web
Data Sets
Private
Personal Subscriptions
Library Subscription Databases
4
Nature and extent of information
needed. Accesses needed information. Evaluates
information. Uses information. Uses information
ethically and legally.
5

• Find the headline on the front page of a
  newspaper from the day you were born.
• Standard Two Accessed needed information
• Physically Locate and Photocopy/Print

6

• Create a titled encyclopedia entry for your birth
  date combining information from all three
  sources. List each source at the end.
• Ask a family member or friend what they remember
  from the day you were born.
• Read the front page stories from the New York
  Times and the Southeast Missourian from that
  date.
• Find your birth date in Day by Day, the Eighties
  available in the reference section of the
  library.

7

• Standard 1 Nature extent of information need.
• Primary v. Secondary Sources
• Defines a timeframe for acquiring needed info
• Standard 2 Access needed information
• Physically locate.
• Uses inquiry to retrieve primary information.
• Differentiates between types of sources.

8

• Standard 3 Evaluates Information
• Summarizes main ideas from text.
• Recognizes cultural text of information creation.
• Synthesizes sources.
• Standard 4- Uses Information
• Creation of a product.
• Standard 5Using information ethically legally
• Acknowledges use of information sources.

9
Find an article on your business topic from a
print journal. Photocopy the table of contents
the article and turn them in.

• What is the objective?
• To find a quality article on the topic.
• To become familiar with print journal layout
• To understand the difference between scholarly
  and popular literature.

10
Find a current issue of Business Week Barrons
Business Communication Quarterly Journal of
Accounting, Auditing Finance and Journal of
Accounting Research.

• Answer the following questions for each
  periodical?
• How often is it published?
• How many articles does it contain?
• What is the average length of an article?
• How many references do the articles have?
• How do you submit something for publication?
• What kind of images are available?