Chapter 4 Flashcards
APA
Standard style for manny communication scholars when they reference other people’s work. American Pscyhological Association
Bibliographic
Pertaining to books and journals
Bibliography
A list of sources about a particular topic or by a particular author referred to in a scholarly work
Boolean operations
Terms such as AND, OR and NOT that allow one to fine-tune a database search
Chicago
In the context of research reporting, a term referring tot The Chicago Manual of Style
Citations
The publication details of books, journal articles or websites
Databases
In the context of bibliographic research, collections of scholarly articles that can be searched electronically
DOI
Digital Object Identifier, identify a web-based document in citations
Fake news
Stories or information that take the form of news but have not been written, produced, or edited to traditional of professional news media standards
Impact factor
A measure of the number of times journal articles are cited by other scholarly articles
Literature
In the context of communication and other research, academic publications such as refereed and published scholarly research reports
Metric
A quantitative measure for a concept or activity
MLA
Modern Language Association
Popular articles
Articles published without a refeeing process, typically in newspapers and magazines, and targeted to a consumer public
Primary source
An original article or book
Refereeing
The process of other researchers in an author’s field reviewing her or his research prior to its publication
Scholary articles
Research papers that have been peer reviewed and publsihed in academic journals
Search fields
Searchable components of a database, such as date, author and title
Search term
A word typed into a database or search engine when searching for information
Secondary source
An author’s interpretatin or summary of an original source
Trade publications
Journals published for particular industries
