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SPC1017/1608/1024-Speech Research

This resource guide was designed specifically to help students with their Speech assignment.

Library Academic Databases

What Are Databases and Why You Need Them?

Courtesy of the Yavapai College Library

Literature Review and Quality

This video from the NCSU Libraries quickly and concisely discusses how articles get peer reviewed, and the role of peer review in scholarly research and publication.

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Put search phrases in double quotes: "dental hygienist""marine engineering""nursing shortage"
Use connectors such as AND: "Star Trek" AND "sex roles"Rihanna AND "social media"
Use connectors such as OR: "climate change" OR "global warming"; advertising OR marketing AND Nike 
Consider different words that represent the same concept: teacher OR professor OR instructor OR trainer