Library Guides: CAS 303: Communication Theory: Home

How to Search for CAS 303 Topics

Type in your theory and the communication phenomenon connected with and. Optional: Use quotation marks to find exact phrases.

"Social information processing" AND online dating

If you don't find relevant sources, try broader, narrower, related terms:

"Social information processing" AND Facebook dating

"Social information processing" AND internet dating

Please be sure to double-check your sources to ensure that they are scholarly.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
The best specialty tool for communications research. Please checkmark "Scholarly (Peer-reviewed Journals) Journals" before searching.

CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Finds mainly scholarly articles but double-check the sources to be sure they are scholarly.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

How to digest a scholarly article:

Anatomy of Scholarly Article

One source for your paper can be an encyclopedia article; the other 7 should be scholarly (academic) journal articles.

Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Try this first: it covers most of the communication theories in our course.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
Over 1000 credible encyclopedias.

A collection of over 1000 reference resources.