Deadline and Goodbye

For those of you who didn't turn in your papers on Friday, Dec. 7, your final deadline is at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10. Just turn in a paper to my mailbox in the journalism office, GAB 102, or slide it under my office door, GAB 101B. I need a hard copy, so you don't need to post it to your blog.

Have a nice winter break and take care. Best to all of you.

Tips to help you with your final project

For those still having trouble locating a study or studies, think about using Google Scholar. Go to the main Google home page, and click on "more" at the top. You'll see a menu of other Google search services, and one is called "Scholar." It's a search engine for academic sources.

Once you find an article that might be useful, you might then click and find that you are in a database that sells articles. Don't buy an article--you can get almost everything free through our library at www.library.unt.edu. Go to e-journals, type in the name of the journal using your EUID, and you're set.

I've asked you to use APA or MLA style for your references. Have you ever tried a service called citation machine? Go to www.citationmachine.net or type in "citation machine" into a search engine, and you'll enter a site that generates your citations automatically.

Once you get to that web site, you'll click on the left hand menu, either MLA or APA. That will take you to a page with fields--you just enter the author's names, name of publication, year, etc., and then the citation machine generates a complete citation that you can copy and paste into your paper.

Please email me with your questions this final week. Take care.