COM 252: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication: Start Here

This guide is designed to help you with library research associated with your research assignments in COM 252.
 For your Advice Essay assignment, you need to identify scholarly research articles dealing with communication in interpersonal relationships.

For your Theory Presentation, you will need to find scholarly research articles on an interpersonal communication theory.

For both assignments, you will need to:

• Locate appropriate research articles
• Evaluate the articles for their relevancy to your topic
• Analyze the content of the articles in order to incorporate relevant evidence into your work

The resources in this guide will help you with this assignment.  If you have questions or need more information, please Ask Us!

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• Your InfoKat account: find due dates, renew books, see any fines, track your requests, save records and searches. Learn more about your borrowing privileges.
• Your linkblue account: get off-campus access to databases, articles, e-books, and more.
• Your ILLiad account (uses your linkblue credentials) allows you to request loans of books and PDFs of articles that UK Libraries does not own. Learn more about Interlibrary Loan.

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