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Special Topics Paper & Presentation

Each student will write a research paper and present it to the class during the final weeks of the course.

Presentation topics will be approved by the instructor.

In-class Library Activity

Part of today's class-time will be identifying resources and locating potentially qualifying articles for your assignment. This activity should get you well on your way to being prepared for the overall project.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window
Covers trade publications from industries including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and more. Covers over 700 publications for trade and industry information. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.
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Contents ~70% indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
PsycINFO 1887-Current (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index to the literature of psychology and related fields, including entries for journal articles, books, dissertations, and other research materials. It indexes some 4.5 million sources, 40% of which are available in electronic or print full-text in our library.
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Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Westlaw is our major legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. It contains statutes, codes, arbitrations, and case law. Westlaw also includes the legal encyclopedias, journals, treatises, and law reviews. In addition to legal materials, it also has extensive collections of national and state/local news sources, as well as regional business magazines.
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Research Process

Suggested Steps

Search the primary academic literature using library databases (Business Source Premier, JSTOR, PsycINFO) to gain background for your topic
Select articles from the primary journals listed below on a single topic related to organizational behavior. You must find and use ten (10) different articles from these journals!
Integrate the material from your articles. You may also use books, magazines, newspapers, web-based source material, as appropriate.
Your paper should be no more than ten typewritten, double‑spaced pages ‑ you must be concise. The ten page limit is for the actual text of the paper, and does not include the title page, executive summary, tables, figures, or references. Use American Psychological Association (APA) format for research citations. [See "Citations" tab above]
Develop a concise class presentation around the material that you have researched.

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Special Topics Paper & Presentation

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Research Process

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