Agricultural Education & Communication Senior Project
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Academic Search Premier A comprehensive index of peer-reviewed scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multicultural studies, as well as popular magazines published from 1990-present. Provides Full-text access to peer reviewed articles from thousands of journals.
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AGRICOLA AGRICOLA is a comprehensive index to journal articles, book chapters, theses and more in the field of agriculture. Disciplines covered include food & human nutrition, agricultural engineering & technology, earth & environmental sciences.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete Comprehensive index for content in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Includes full text journal articles.
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Education Abstracts Education Abstracts features content on a wide array of subject areas including adult education, comparative education, government funding, higher education, school administration, teacher evaluation and more.
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ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to educational literature and resources. It contains more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Search results may be from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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Senior Projects
Writing a Literature Review
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The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success by Call Number: Permanent Reserves (Front Desk) - LB1047.3 .M33 2012ISBN: 9781452240886Publication Date: 2012 -
The Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students by Call Number: Permanent Reserves (Front Desk) - LB2369 .R525 2008ISBN: 9781412934268Publication Date: 2008
Reading Articles
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How to Read a Scientific ArticleAn excellent overview of how to read an article - includes a template for taking notes.
By Mary Purugganan, Ph.D. and Jan Hewitt, Ph.D. of Rice University
Citing Your Sources