Do not make the research segment of your assignment hard.
Choose your topic carefully.
Before you commit to a topic be sure you can readily find sufficient information that meets the assignment requirements.
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Reference resources are useful to learn about a topic so you can develop an effective search strategy. Credo Reference does link to Vol State databases to help you find credible sources.
Wikipedia and other encyclopedias are not appropriate sources for an academic paper, but are appropriate tools to learn about your topic.
This step of the research process will likely produce some suitable sources for your assignment, but more research will be needed. When you are comfortable with your topic selection proceed to Step 3.
Each recommended database has a different purpose. For best results use as described.
Description: This database only has the periodical CQ Researcher. Each issue of CQ Researcher is an in-depth report on a current or controversial subject in the U.S. written by experienced journalists and has a bibliography.
Description: A TEL database published by Gale Cengage Learning focusing on current social issues. Each topic portal provides a variety of resources including pro/con viewpoint essays and published information sources on a controversial subjects.
Description: This library database is a general periodical index database. In this database you will find newspapers and wire feeds, magazines, trade journals (specialized magazines), and scholarly journals including peer-reviewed. ProQuest covers a wide variety of topics and is a suitable research tool for most subject areas.