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When writing a paper or developing a presentation, you frequently need to research to find the information you'll include in your final product. Academic and professional research requires more than just a quick Google search and the cutting and pasting a few relevant quotes. This research guide will take you step by step through the research process and show you how to use the library and the web to find good sources.
Research Process:
The information cycle is the progression of media coverage of a newsworthy event. Understanding the information cycle can help you determine what kind of information you are likely to find about your topic.
Television, Social Media, and the Web
Newspapers
Weekly Popular Magazines and News Magazines
Academic, Scholarly Journals
Books
*The information on this page is used courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*The information on this page is used courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign