Research Guides: Course Guides for Communication Studies: COMM301

Rhetorical Analysis Articles

Communication Source Provides articles in areas related to communication and mass media. Originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts.
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Movies, Television, Books

Academic Search Complete Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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MLA International Bibliography Citations to scholarly works on literatures, languages, linguistics, folklore, literary theory, dramatic arts, and printing history since the 5th century CE. Also includes rhetoric and teaching practices. Covers 1926 to present, updated ten times yearly.
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Project MUSE Provides the full-text electronic versions of more than 200 scholarly journals. Updated monthly.
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Music research

Music Index Contains data from over 800 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 22 languages. It covers all styles and genres of music. Included are book reviews, obituaries, news and articles about music, musicians and the music industry. Coverage: 1976 - current. Note: 1949-1993 is available in print.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Books, journals, conference papers, dissertations, book chapters, bibliographies, catalogs, media materials, and all forms of scholarly communication related to music. Coverage: 1967 to present. Updated monthly.
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Social Relevance & Gender

America: History and Life Provides 60 years of recent U.S. and Canadian historical and cultural scholarship in thousands of scholarly journals, books, review articles, & Ph.D. dissertations. Topics range from prehistoric times to the present.
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JSTOR Archive of scholarly journals cover to cover. Interdisciplinary coverage of journals back to the first issue through to the last few years. Also includes over 2 million images originally from Artstor.
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Project MUSE Provides the full-text electronic versions of more than 200 scholarly journals. Updated monthly.
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GenderWatch 40,000 full text articles from more than 100 international journals, books, magazines and newsletters, plus unpublished papers and conference proceedings and nearly 1,000 special reports devoted to gender and women's issues. Includes articles from the Ethnic NewsWatch database on ethnic and minority women and women of color. Coverage: 1978 to present.GenderWatch allows up to two simultaneous users.
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Sometimes Useful for social relevance

Criminal Justice Abstracts Useful for anything related to gangs or police
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SPORT Discus Use this for any research related to sports, broadcast sports, advertising, films, athletes etc.
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Sociological Abstracts Provides access to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social & behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1952 to date. Updated monthly.
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Politics Database A collective database on government issue (PAIS: Public Affairs Information Services), politics (WPSA: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts) and policy (Policy File Index) that covers political science since 1972.
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Occasionally your research for social relevance will take you to databases that are primarily quantitative however they will have analysis that can help you with framing the context of your artifact

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