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JOURNALISM 332: RESEARCH METHODS IN MASS COMMUNICATIONS (Professor Coddington)

Winter 2019
http://libguides.wlu.edu/jour332

Annotations and Literature Reviews

What is involved in creating an annotated bibliography?   Here are some guides:  Purdue University University of Wisconsin  |  Hunter College

 

A journal article's literature review discusses the existing research on aspects of the topic.

Citation Styles

Unfortunately, there is no universally agreed-upon "style" for documenting the use of sources in research -- no single method for formatting footnotes, bibliographies, endnotes, in-text citations, etc.  Instead, there are more than a dozen, most of which are specialized for use in one or more subject areas.
The W&L University Library maintain a collection of resources on these styles:

English Language Dictionaries and Usage

Go to this page to use

  • three of the most respected dictionaries of the English language available online;
  • major printed and online guides to usage and grammar.