The document provides instructions for completing a COMM 110 research assignment. It begins by instructing students to review slides for an overview and links to complete the assignment. It emphasizes that students need to download the checklist to successfully finish the assignment and should review it after completing the work to ensure all requirements are met. The rest of the document offers guidance on searching the database, including tips on choosing keywords, using connectors like "and" and "or", searching different terms, and limiting results to scholarly peer-reviewed sources. It also includes a list of reputable communication studies journals to check that selected articles are from.

2. FIRST: Look at the slides for an overview of your comm
110 assignment. Then click on the links as needed to
complete your assignment!

3. You need the checklist to do this
assignment successfully.
SO… Download the checklist before
you start your assignment and review it
AFTER you think you are done to make
sure you are including everything you
need.
COMM 110 Research Checklist

5. PICKING KEYWORDSThink of all the related terms for your topic
Topic: First impressions on social media
Face to face
Initial
interaction
Impression
formation
First
Impressions
Facebook
Snapchat
Instagram
Twitter
Social media
Remember synonyms
Search more than one term
Different terms in different boxes

6. CONNECTORS.
AND use to search different variables
Searching
OR use to search related terms

7. SEARCHING.
* Asterisk is for root terms SHFT+8
Advanced
Latin* looks for Latin, Latino, Latinos,
LatinX

8. SEARCHING.
Advanced
“romantic relationships”
“Quotes” use to group words together

9. Sample Searches
Interview* and nonverbal
emoticons and interpersonal
disclosure and “electronic mediated communication”
cloth* or dress and first impression

10. THE DATABASE.
And searches in own or same boxes
Search
OR searches ALWAYS in same boxes
Limit to scholarly peer reviewed

12. Journal
List
COMM
Consult this list to make sure your article comes
from a reputable communication studies journal

13. 1. Find your article in the database and
click on the title of the article
2. Look at the SOURCE line of the record
3. Look at the COMM Journals
list (pdf.)to make sure your
article citation is there.
Journal Title
Journal Title

15. Is my article scholarly?
1 2 3 4 5
Usually
10-15
pages
long
Contain in-
depth analysis
about a very
narrow topic
with DATA!
If it is a
Scholarly
Comm
Studies
article the
journal will
be on the
LIST.
Contains
words in the
abstract like:
Data,
Participants, this
study, results
20-40
references

20. CONTACTeMAIL
TIFFINI.TRAVIS
@CSULB.EDU
ME