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SPCH 1318: Intercultural Speech (Dr. Adkins)

The purpose of this research guide is to help students in Dr. Adkins's SPCH 1318 class to find information sources for their intercultural speech assignments.

Find Information Sources

You will search for information sources about your topic using the library's discovery tool, which you can access here.

I suggest searching for information sources with the name of your cultural group in the first line and an aspect of intercultural communication in the second line, such as:

Romani AND “time orientation”

Goth AND “gender roles”

Amish and behavioral norms

Fraternities AND demographics

Inupiat AND stereotype

Bodybuilding AND culture

You should not anticipate that there will be any complete articles about a particular aspect of intercultural communication as it relates to your cultural group. You may have to interpret cultural descriptions as they relate to communication theory.

APA Documentation

This is our video that introduces APA documentation. I urge you to watch the entire video carefully before starting to write your paper or annotated bibliography. It is much easier to cite correctly as you go along, rather than try to fix your documentation after you have written your paper.

This is our complete APA guide, which goes into more detail about citing sources and formatting correctly.

It includes our sample paper. When you're writing a paper, you can model the formatting of your paper after this one.

If you are unsure how to set up the formatting in Microsoft Word so that it fits the requirements for APA formatting, you could instead download this blank Word document that has the formatting already set up for you.

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