LibGuides: PSC 401: Senior Project: Issue Brief and Awareness Raising Event

Issue Brief and Awareness Raising Event

What is an Issue Brief and Awareness Raising Event?

This project will require you to invest time to organize and carry out an event that raises awareness about a social or political problem.

What Kinds of Sources Do I Need?

Yes, credible, reputable sources will help you for this project too! They will give you context and background information for your social or political problem as well as provide you with ideas for carrying our your event effectively. Scholarly articles will identify causes or social and political factors surrounding the social problem and current news articles will identify current problems and possible solutions.

Library Search is is an excellent place to start your research for broad topics that cover many subject areas. Library Search has books/ebooks, magazine and newspaper articles, reference articles, scholarly research articles and even streaming content. Remember to use the limits in to narrow down by resource, date, and more.

Depending on the subject area of your topic, you can also search directly in a subject specific database.
See full list of subject databases here: http://library.wcupa.edu/az.php?a=all

Possible Subject Databases:

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text journal articles, books, and conference proceedings content covering areas in political science including comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations, and political theory.
(EBSCOhost)
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive and high quality sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.
(EBSCOhost)
U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Formerly called National Newspapers Core.
Search or browse full text issues of:
-Los Angeles Times (1997-current)
-New York Times (1980-current)
-Wall Street Journal (1984-current)
-Washington Post (1987-current)
(ProQuest)
Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers essential areas related to public administration including public administration theory, administration and economy, administration and politics, administration and society, administrative structures and organization, public and social services, public service personnel and theory and methods.
(EBSCOhost)
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Times (London) - and selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Also includes full-text television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
(EBSCOhost)