Research Steps
This research guide provides subject and discipline related resources, search strategies, and research tips to support course assignments and student research success.
Steps to effective research
- Identify a research topic
- Get the topic context and background with opens new windowReference resources
- Find opens new windowbooks and ebooks
- Find opens new windowarticles
As needed, request articles not available at ORU through opens new windowInterlibrary Loan - Evaluate your sources
- opens new windowCite your sources
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Yue, C. A., Men, L. R., & Ferguson, M. A. (2021). opens new windowExamining the Effects of Internal Communication and Emotional Culture on Employees’ Organizational Identification. International Journal of Business Communication, 58(2), 169–195. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488420914066
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