PR 680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Google Scholar

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Public Relations
• Course: PR 680
• Professor: Dr. Sungwon Chung

Document Summary

For this, you"re expected to use scholarly research for most of your assignments, aside from this one. Information you find online from googling, for example, just won"t cut it. Your professors will often ask you to find scholarly articles or books. Don"t fret because googling and internet research skills can be transformed into excellent research skills quickly. Scholarly means that it has been researched and written by scholars using sound or research testing methods. Scholarly publications are authored by highly-trained and knowledgeable scholars such as professors or researchers. They have an academic background in a field of study related to the articles they get published. Textbooks are usually scholarly, but you"ll probably be asked to find research beyond your required readings. Scholarly books are often published by a university press. If it"s unclear whether the publisher is academic or scholarly, those books also include information about the authors so you can check what their qualifications and credentials are.